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Report: US Orders Embassies to Partner With Social Media to Combat Foreign 'Propaganda'
The cable urges diplomats to use X, Community Notes and AI tools while working with Pentagon psychological operations units and local influencers.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed American embassies worldwide to partner with social media platforms like Elon Musk's X to counter foreign propaganda that shifts blame onto the US.
- The initiative involves collaboration with the US military's psychological operations unit to counter hostile messaging, expose adversary behavior, and promote pro-American voices.
- Embassies are tasked with recruiting local influencers and academics to make American-funded narratives seem locally organic, targeting foreign influence operations from Iran, Russia, and China.
- The plan includes using X's Community Notes feature and AI tools to detect disinformation, expanding access to reliable information globally, and repositioning US cultural centers as hubs for free speech.
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The U.S. government ordered its embassies and consulates around the world to launch coordinated campaigns against Elon Musk’s “foreign propaganda” and to use Elon Musk’s social network X as an “innovative” tool to achieve that goal. This was revealed by the British newspaper The Guardian in a publication this Tuesday. The media had access to a cable signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suggesting that embassy and consulate staff work w…
Marco Rubio Urges Diplomats To Use X To Fight "Anti-American Propaganda"
US diplomats should use social media platform X and partner with military psychological operations units in an effort to "counter foreign anti-American propaganda," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
·New Delhi, India
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Total News Sources18
Leaning Left6Leaning Right5Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution46% Left
Bias Distribution
- 46% of the sources lean Left
46% Left
L 46%
15%
R 39%
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