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In the version of the bill incorporated into the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Congress would ask the United States Secretary of State to collaborate with the United States Secretary of Defense and other relevant Federal agencies to create a "Global Engagement Center" (GEC) to fight against propaganda from foreign ...
In response to the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany, the House created the Special Committee on Un-American Activities to address the growing concerns about foreign propaganda in the U.S. [22] [23] The committee was tasked with conducting investigations into three issues: "(1) the extent, character, and objects of Nazi propaganda activities in ...
The report notes that between 2017–2018, Trump tried to convince Jeff Sessions to reverse his recusal over the Special Counsel investigation. Trump also tried to convince Sessions to launch an investigation into Hillary Clinton and prosecute her. [172] "On multiple occasions in 2017, the President spoke with Sessions about reversing his ...
A 2013 amendment relaxed bans on domestic access to information intended for foreign audiences, but restrictions remain. No, Obama Didn’t Repeal a Law Preventing the Dissemination of Propaganda ...
The Global Engagement Center (GEC) was an agency within the Bureau of Global Public Affairs at the United States Department of State.Established in 2016, its mission was to lead U.S. government efforts to "recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the ...
The report was the most detailed public collection of Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 elections released as of January 2017. [14] According to CNN, the CIA and FBI took Steele's dossier "seriously enough that they kept it out of" the January 6, 2017, assessment "in order to not divulge which parts of the dossier they had corroborated and ...
Georgia’s parliament is set to pass a highly controversial so-called “foreign agents” bill that has triggered widespread protests across the former Soviet Republic nestled in the Caucasus ...
Sen. Bob Menendez, charged last week with secretly aiding the Egyptian government in exchange for bribes, single-handedly blocked passage of bipartisan legislation in 2020 that would have ...