Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act: Difference between revisions

According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', as of March 2018, the State Department had not yet begun to spend the $120 million allocated to it, and not one of the 23 analysts working in the GEC could speak Russian.<ref name="2018Trump">{{cite news |title=State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/world/europe/state-department-russia-global-engagement-center.html? |access-date=February 23, 2022 |work=New York Times |date=March 4, 2018 |quote=the State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy.  As a result, not one of the 23 analysts working in the department's Global Engagement Center — which has been tasked with countering Moscow's disinformation campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts.}}</ref> In 2020, the GEC issued its first report, describing what it called "Pillars of Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Julian E. |title=State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/state-department-russian-disinformation.html |access-date=February 23, 2022 |work=New York Times |date=August 5, 2020 |quote=Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in the United States and other parts of the West, according to a State Department report released on Wednesday.  The report is one of the most detailed explanations yet from the Trump administration on how Russia disseminates disinformation, but it largely avoids discussing how Moscow is trying to influence the current campaign.}}</ref><ref name="2020State">{{Cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf