Matt Taibbi

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1/3/2025, 11:03:54 PM
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Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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GEC was the “only US Agency” dedicated to exposing foreign disinfo? The FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force doesn’t do it? CISA? The Office of Intelligence and Analysis? The DOD? Don’t we also have a federal media arm (Polygraph) devoted to fact-checking foreign disinformation?
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
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Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist https://www.france24.com/en/live… https://www.france24.com/en/live…

The statement is part of a public discourse about the role of US agencies in combating foreign disinformation. It questions the claim that the GEC was the only agency dedicated to this task, suggesting that other agencies also have similar responsibilities.

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