Posted on 12/09/2016 4:06:02 AM PST by EBH
Portman/Murphy Bill Promotes Coordinated Strategy to Defend America, Allies Against Propaganda and Disinformation from Russia, China & Others
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations has passed the Senate as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and other experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage existing expertise and empower local communities to defend themselves from foreign manipulation.
The passage of this bill in the Senate today takes us one critical step closer to effectively confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and disinformation operations being waged against us. While the propaganda and disinformation threat has grown, the U.S. government has been asleep at the wheel. Today we are finally signaling that enough is enough; the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going to confront this threat head-on, said Senator Portman. With the help of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used against our allies and our interests will fail.
Congress has taken a big step in fighting back against fake news and propaganda from countries like Russia. When the president signs this bill into law, the United States will finally have a dedicated set of tools and resources to confront our adversaries widespread efforts to spread false narratives that undermine democratic institutions and compromise Americas foreign policy goals, said Murphy. Im proud of what Senator Portman and I accomplished here because its long past time for the U.S. to get off the sidelines and confront these growing threats.
NOTE: The bipartisan Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is organized around two main priorities to help achieve the goal of combatting the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation. They are as follows:
The first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for countering foreign propaganda and disinformation. The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and China in addition to violent extremists. The Center will be led by the State Department, but with the active senior level participation of the Department of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant agencies. The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign disinformation operations and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests.
Second, the legislation seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more adaptive and responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation techniques. This fund will complement and support the Centers role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the U.S. government into the strategy-making process. It will also empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and integrate their expertise into the strategy-making process.
Nope not satire and bumped from the FR news cycle too
I just cannot understand how they think they can do it. We rejected this behavior when we elected Trump. Is this one of the last pushes before he gets into office? We rejected the internet bill several times in the last eight years, now they pull a stunt like this? It is more than maddening.
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans July 14, 2013
Nah, it's all good. Nothing to see here...move along.
You’re so paranoid. There’s nothing to see here. Move along.
PING!!!
Theyre going to fight to stop 2016 election truths from happening again.
Article and comments, esp #1 and #28 Internet censorship
see #38, #41, #70, #66, #78, #79, #83
From 79
From the article: The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and China in addition to violent extremists.
Violent extremists are anyone (including American citizens) who is politically incorrect; putting out news the government would rather hide or bringing up observations of society the Left does not want discussed.
The State department is an agency with deeply seated Marxist globalist ideology and ambitions and they have put this new speech control agency in the State department.
Thanks EBH
China and russia are on board with this
Uniparty is alive and well :(
Yes, yes, and yes.
Matt Drudge was on Alex Jones earlier this year to give his listeners a message. The message was that he had gone to dinner with a Supreme Court Justice and the justice told him ALL this was coming.
It is True News ;)! Here is YouTube—surprise visit to Infowars interview by Matt Drudge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0j93mklSdM
Jones has a petition for people to sign that he is taking to Trump after the inauguration.
Theyre going to fight to stop 2016 election truths happen again. Globalist RINO Marxists and Democrat Party Marxists across the board are on board.
Yup, while the GOP-elite pretend to embrace Trump, they are trying their best to ensure We the People never have a candidate win like Trump did.
I looked into the Mississippi burning of Chris McDaniel for many months but never quite discovered the money behind his slander. You are right! Portman was one of the cabal criminals behind the slandering. It’s here among other sites.
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https://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/confirmed-lier-rove-and-senate-gop-leaders-paid-for-attacks-against-mcdaniel-conservatives/
All Mississippi GOP Suspicions Confirmed McConnell, Cornyn, Portman, Corker and Blunt Paid For Racist Attack Ads In Mississippi Against Chris McDaniel
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July 16, 2014 by sundance
(Via RedState Erick Erickson) I can confirm that the attack ads in Mississippi run by All Citizens for Mississippi were funded by Senate Republicans, including Senators Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Rob Portman, Bob Corker, and Roy Blunt. It appears our Senate Republican leaders are willing to risk losing a Senate majority so long as they can get their own re-elected. Yes folks, it is true. I can confirm what we all suspected.
The advertisements attacked Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel and painted conservative Republicans and tea party activists as racists. According to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission, All Citizens for Mississippi received funding from a Haley Barbour backed group called Mississippi Conservatives.
Mississippi Conservatives, in turn, was funded in part by Sally Bradshaw of the RNCs Growth and Opportunity Project, former RNC Chairman and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the political action committees created for Senators Mitch McConnell ($50,000), John Cornyn ($50,000), Rob Portman ($25,000), Bob Corker ($25,000), and Roy Blunt ($5,000).
Interestingly, [after Mitt Romneys election defeat] Sally Bradshaw and Henry Barbour (Haley Barbours nephew) worked on the autopsy of the 2012 GOP loss. [<== and constructed the GOP game plan for how to win in 2014 and 2016] http://www.redstate.com/2014/07/15/confirmed-senate-republican-leaders-paid-for-attacks-against-conservatives/
This is from 2012 and it puts all the pieces in place.
In the 2012 NDAA it authorized the use of propaganda on the American people by our own government, http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5
Here we are now with the renewing NDAA that effectively will limit our ability to seek out and find alternatives to the government propaganda. Obama will sign this and we will no longer be an informed public at all. We have complained the last few years about media bias, but somehow we never connected the dots to the 2012 NDAA.
They may just as well say we’re sick of freedom of speech. This won’t, or at least shouldn’t, get past the courts.
It is in the NDAA sitting on Obama’s desk to be signed. It will never see the courts.
For some reason there is this other ‘black hole’ that no one seems to care about either.
HR 4310 passes in NDAA authorizing propaganda on American Citizens http://www.opsecnews.com/hr-4310-passes-in-ndaa-authorizing-propaganda-on-american-citizens/
4 years ago this was inserted into the NDAA and it is being used right now regarding Russian hackers and fake news! This propaganda bill now closes the loop on information available to the public from anything but government approved sources.
It is essentially over unless Trump rewrites the NDAA and that my FRiend won’t pass the House or Senate.
Is it too cynical to interpret this as the establishment of a globalist Ministry of Propaganda?
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No.
Truth will continue to come from the CIA Domestic Operations Bureau Media Desk and its outlets - the Enemedia: WAPO, MSNBC, NPR, CNN, etc.
Theyre going to fight to stop 2016 election truths from happening again.
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Correct.
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