The US govt is creating a new agency for 'creating healthy fact-based (sic) narratives in the media of foreign countries'...
Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a "whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions" to counter "foreign disinformation and manipulation," which they believe threaten the world's "security and stability."
Comment: Read: The lies we tell are being countered by governments and the alternative media by, of all things, true information. Our true agenda and interests are being made plain for people to see. This is starting to destabilize our power, and thus our security. Therefore, we need a centralized location and organization to coordinate our lies and propaganda in order to better protect our national security interests - namely, our god-given entitlement to control all and everything while make us and all our cronies rich.
"As Russia continues to spew its disinformation and false narratives, they undermine the United States and its interests in places like Ukraine, while also breeding further instability in these countries," Kinzinger explained in a statement. "The United States has a role in countering these destabilizing acts of propaganda, which is why I'm proud to introduce [the aforementioned bill]. This important legislation develops a comprehensive U.S. strategy to counter disinformation campaigns through interagency cooperation and on-the-ground partnerships with outside organizations that have experience in countering foreign propaganda."
Comment: The United States does a fine job of undermining its interests when it spews forth unending streams of lies. Eventually people no longer believe what you are selling and find alternatives to it. All Russia and China, the main targets of this bill, have done is steadily provide a sane and eminently more believable perspective to the insane reality-creators' false narrative.
Make no mistake — this legislation isn't proposing some team of noble fact-finders, chiseling away to free the truth from the façades of various foreign governmental narratives for the betterment of American and allied populations. If passed, this legislation will allow cumbrously pro-'American' propaganda to infiltrate cable, online, and mainstream news organizations wherever the government deems necessary.
"From Ukraine to the South China Sea, foreign disinformation campaigns do more than spread anti-Western sentiments — they manipulate public perception to change the facts on the ground, subvert democracy and undermine U.S. interests," Lieu explained. "In short, they make the world less safe."
Comment: Reality is 180 degrees from this. Lieu should be asking the US to look in the mirror on this one, since it would show anti-Western sentiments are being spread by the United States' own actions and that it is the United States' lies and aggressive violence throughout the world that is making it less safe. It is only in the last 10 or so years that there has been a growing alternative to the false narrative that once had people believing the United States was 'the bastion of freedom and truth'. One might ask how Lieu is able to dress himself with such a distorted perception of reality.
H.R. 5181 tasks the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to "establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response," which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true dystopic manner — 'develop and disseminate' "fact-based narratives" to counter effrontery propaganda.
Listed among nine core duties of this propaganda response squad, according to the bill's text, emphasis added, will be "Identifying current and emerging trends in foreign propaganda and disinformation, including the use of print, broadcast, online and social media, support for third-party outlets such as think tanks, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations, and the use of covert or clandestine special operators and agents to influence targeted populations and governments in order to coordinate and shape the development of tactics, techniques, and procedures to expose and refute foreign misinformation and disinformation" — ostensibly in foreign lands.
Comment: If you tell the truth, then you don't need "the use of covert or clandestine special operators and agents." You have these to spread propaganda and subvert people and nations.
Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles.
"These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations," Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.
Comment: The funny thing is that countries really aren't spending that much in comparison to how much money and effort the United States expends on its media military defense complex. In short, it doesn't cost that much to defend and spread the truth, but it cost orders of magnitude more time and effort to defend lies and hide agendas.
"Surprisingly," Portman continued, "there is currently no single U.S. governmental agency or department charged with the national level development, integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation."
Though putatively aimed to counter purported disinformation abroad, text of the bill hints the effort would operate on some level within the U.S., as well — or at least cracks the door to widening that scope and focus in the future.
"Whether it's counter-propaganda, whether it's counter-extremism, we just really have to come to terms with the fact the United States government is not always the most credible voice in these debates," said Kristin Lord, CEO of IREX, a non-profit organization promoting 'global change,' at a meeting of the Atlantic Council in March. "So we have to invest in the people who are making the credible arguments."
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