The Department of State exists to carry out the foreign policy of the President the United States, who at this time is Donald J Trump.
Anyone employed there who isn’t willing to do that needs to leave immediately.
Period.
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According to MIT Tech Review, on March 11, Acting Undersecy of State Darren Beattie sent a document to “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub” staff, (R/FIMI), that “tracked and countered foreign disinformation,” now shut down. Beattie wanted:
<><>all “staff emails and other records
<><>wrt individuals and organizations that track or write about foreign disinformation,”
<><>as well as “all staff communications that merely reference Trump or people in his orbit,
<><>Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
<><>a search of communications for keywords,
<><>‘Pepe the Frog,’ ‘incel,’ ‘q-anon,’ ‘Black Lives Matter,’
<><>‘great replacement theory,’ ‘far-right,’ and ‘infodemic’”
<><>some 60 figures and organizations targeted by Beattie
<><>former US cybersecurity official (and Trump appointee) Christopher Krebs
<><>entrepreneur Bill Gates,
<><>open-source journalism organization “Bellingcat,”
<><>commentator Bill Kristol,
<><>the Stanford Internet Observatory,
<><>the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum.
<><>(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...