State Department tells staff abroad to promote anti-populist ‘disinformation’ game in schools

November 18, 2022March 18, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The same State Department office that partnered with a Department of Homeland Security-backed private consortium that reported purported election misinformation to tech platforms for removal in the 2020 and 2022 cycles is also using internet games to affect elections abroad.
State Department tells staff abroad to promote anti-populist ‘disinformation’ game in schools (archived)

The game was originally meant for foreign countries to combat populist sentiment. FFO explains how it actually ‘boomerangs’ to the US. ⬇️

Global Engagement Center Fighting Russian Propaganda with American Propaganda

Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations

September 19, 2022September 20, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

The move came after a report on fake US military-linked accounts that were promoting pro-Western narratives on Facebook and Twitter
Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations

With the rise of Russia and China as strategic competitors, military commanders have wanted to fight back, including online. And Congress supported that. Frustrated with perceived legal obstacles to the Defense Department’s ability to conduct clandestine activities in cyberspace, Congress in late 2019 passed a law affirming that the military could conduct operations in the “information environment” to defend the United States and to push back against foreign disinformation aimed at undermining its interests. The measure, known as Section 1631*, allows the military to carry out clandestine psychologic operations without crossing what the CIA has claimed as its covert authority, alleviating some of the friction that had hindered such operations previously.

*The Law of Military Cyber Operations and the New NDAA

Global Engagement Center Fighting Russian Propaganda with American Propaganda

August 22, 2022March 18, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Global Engagement Center Fighting Russian Propaganda with American Propaganda

Basically, the GECr is allowed to fund organizations that will be able to counter state-based (i.e. Russia and China) and non-stated based propaganda with more propaganda, the big difference being that it will be the “right kind” of propaganda.

As you can see, the functions of the Global Engagement Center morphed significantly from March 2016 to December 2016, becoming a state-based propaganda/anti-propaganda tool of Washington rather than a tool that was originally designed to counter international terrorism for the global good.

Most of the missing links:

Developing an Integrated Global Engagement Center To Support Government-wide Counterterrorism Communications Activities Directed Abroad and Revoking Executive Order 13584

State Department: Global Engagement Center

Developing an Integrated Strategic Counterterrorism Communications Initiative and Establishing a Temporary Organization to Support Certain Government-wide Communications Activities Directed Abroad

S.2943 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017

Came across this video from the Global Engagement Center, a few weeks ago, and couldn’t find anything written about, it in alternative media, at the time. Accidentally came across this article, while looking up the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation. Already knew about the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, but not the GEC. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anti-China Canadian MPs claim sovereignty over Argentine mine

February 1, 2022October 9, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The anti-China panic sweeping Canadian politics has descended from tragedy into farce.
Anti-China Canadian MPs claim sovereignty over Argentine mine

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*Xinjiang*

More on the disinformation industry

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The ruling class wants us to accept war as something that will never end

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The ruling class wants us to accept war as something that will never end

The settler-colonial states are sealing their own demise

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The settler-colonial states are sealing their own demise

Today’s colonial powers, with their high-tech instruments of violence and coercion, appear to have created the perfect system for maintaining their rule. Israel has built a model of policing the Palestinians so thorough, complete with heavy movement restrictions and frequent persecution of political dissidents, that its workings can best be compared to quantum mechanics. The U.S. is expanding on its unparalleled digital surveillance and police state by installing cameras along its borders which intensively monitor everyone surrounding them. Australia is imprisoning asylum seekers in horrifyingly inhumane offshore detention centers, one part in the trend towards concentration camps that’s occurring throughout the wider imperialist sphere.

Biden state media appointee advocated using propaganda against Americans and ‘rethinking’ First Amendment

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Biden state media appointee advocated using propaganda against Americans and ‘rethinking’ First Amendment

Stengel’s appointment appears to be the clearest signal of a coming escalation by the Biden administration of the censorship and suppression of online media that is seen to threaten US imperatives abroad.

FDD emerges as hub for online harassment against critics of Trump’s State Department

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

FDD emerges as hub for online harassment against critics of Trump’s State Department

“Funding that was meant to counter ISIS propaganda was morphed into funding to silence activists and experts who want to reform U.S. policy on Iran.”

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Anti-China Canadian MPs claim sovereignty over Argentine mine

Biden state media appointee advocated using propaganda against Americans and ‘rethinking’ First Amendment