The U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency tasked with fighting foreign propaganda, has been shut down after Republicans voted to cut its funding. The GEC, which employed around 120 people and had a budget of $61 million a year, was created in 2016. Its main goal was
The world of espionage and international intrigue is not just the stuff of spy movies—it’s happening in real life, and the spotlight is on British spies operating in Russia. A recent announcement by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) revealed that six diplomats from the British Embassy in Moscow had their
Today, the Associated Press published an article that reads more like a NATO sales letter than serious journalism. The salesman David Klepper argues that Americans are stupid and are easily fooled by disinformation from Russia, China, and Iran. While David paints these countries as big threats to U.S. democracy, he
