Showing posts with label government overreach. Show all posts
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Friday, April 18, 2025

Trump administration shutters US office countering foreign disinformation

Known as the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/Fimi) hub, the closure represents a huge victory for rightwing critics who had alleged that the office, despite only looking at foreign state-level disinformation attacks on other countries, was involved in censoring American conservative speech. It comes as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to dismantle what it describes as government overreach in monitoring speech...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/trump-state-department-foreign-disinformation


 








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