Guardian Australia
Cable signed by secretary of state Marco Rubio endorses Musk’s platform by name and suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit – key US politics stories from Monday 30 March at a glance The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter/X as an “innovative” tool to help do it. The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio , on Monday and obtained by the Guardian, also suggests embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s psychological operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. It lays out a sweeping set of instructions for how embassy staff should push back against what it describes as coordinated foreign efforts to undermine American interests abroad. Continue reading...
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