Key US unit fighting disinformation abroad in jeopardy ahead of Trump return

The Global Engagement Center, which addresses foreign influence operations outside the US, snubbed for extension

The Global Engagement Center (GEC), a state department unit critical to combating foreign disinformation, will not receive a multi-year extension in the latest National Defense Authorization Act, putting its future operations in jeopardy.

The next chapter of the GEC – which only addresses foreign influence operations outside the United States – now relies on Congress to come up with an extension some other way by 24 December, or the United States faces a potential gap in their international disinformation response capabilities.

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