The Pentagon has agreed to give $40 million to the U.S. State Department to help counter foreign propaganda and disinformation amid ongoing concerns raised by the role of both by Russian operatives accused of interfering in affairs abroad.
The Departments of Defense and State have signed an agreement that will more than double the budget of the latter’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an office established under the Obama administration initially to counter propaganda attributed to foreign terrorist and extremist groups but subsequently broadened to cover state and non-state disinformation efforts, the State Department announced Monday.
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