The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, a former unit within the U.S. Department of State, was recently eliminated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s mass restructuring. The bureau, which was tasked with promoting democracy, human rights, and combatting antisemitism, was closed on July 11th. Its website (formerly located here) is now offline.

But the bureau’s account on X, the social network site majority-owned by Elon Musk, remains active. And on Saturday that account, @StateDRL, chose to amplify a lengthy message from X’s “Global Government Affairs” account railing against French prosecutors who have accused the company of “fraudulent data extraction” and classified the firm as an “organized gang.”

The zombie account indicated that the United States was siding with X, stating, “Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike. The United States will defend the free speech of all Americans against acts of foreign censorship.”

The New York Times reported on July 11th that Rubio insisted that the “the closure of divisions like the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor does not mean that their functions will cease to exist — only that they will be integrated into existing regional bureaus to better coordinate country-specific policies.”

However, the elimination of the bureau’s website does suggest that the entity itself was dissolved, raising obvious questions about why its account on X has not only remained online, but put to such a purpose.