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  • USAID 'Disinformation Primer' targets gamers, advertisers, memes, 'right not to be disinformed'

    03/16/2024 4:47:06 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    Just the News ^ | March 15, 2024 11:00pm | Greg Piper
    Going further than the Treasury Department's tacit support for debanking alleged "hate groups" after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, a State Department component that "strengthen[s] resilient democratic societies" developed a more sweeping plan for financially choking off disfavored narratives a month later. The U.S. Agency for International Development wrote a "Disinformation Primer" that appears to have been started in "late 2020," judging by a reference to the most up-to-date "social media initiatives" by Facebook and Twitter "to address disinformation and misinformation."It was still being written at least 10 days into the Biden administration, referring twice to the Jan. 31,...
  • Pakistan snubbed US democracy summit to please China --- Prime Minister Khan criticizes America’s ‘Cold War approach’ while Beijing hails Islamabad as a ‘real iron brother’

    12/13/2021 6:49:52 PM PST · by elpadre · 15 replies
    asiatimes.com ^ | December 13, 2021 | FM Shakil
    PESHAWAR – Pakistan gave the US-sponsored virtual “Summit for Democracy” a miss after remaining ambivalent for days about joining the event in official fear of annoying its all-weather strategic ally China and thereby potentially jeopardizing over US$60 billion worth of Chinese investment in the country. Pakistan’s foreign office did not explicitly announce that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s elected government turned down the US invitation but media reports indicate that’s what happened, likely under Beijing’s pressure. China reportedly contacted Pakistani authorities in the two weeks before the summit to lobby them against participating. Days after Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi...