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The Rise and Fall of America's Response to Foreign Election Meddling
The administration is dismantling U.S. capacity against foreign interference despite the urgency of the work being done.
Amidst the chaos of the current moment— a slew of executive actions, an ever-mounting pile of temporary restraining orders and injunctions in response, and the single-handed dismantling of agencies created by Congress—this story has received relatively little attention. In December, Congress failed to extend funding for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), whose mandate had charged it to identify and expose foreign propaganda efforts; it had become a frequent target of House Republicans and Elon Musk, who alleged it to be a tool of censorship. This rhetoric picked up in earnest after the 2022 midterms with the launch of Rep. Jim Jordan (R.-Ohio)’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which was devoted to digging up instances of supposed misbehavior by agencies and civil society groups examining viral claims.
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