A State Department team that is focused on misinformation and disinformation meets regularly with Big Tech companies, including Twitter and Facebook, an official said in a recent deposition.
Daniel Kimmage, the principal deputy coordinator of the department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), said that the team would exchange information during the meetings, including providing social media firms with details on how foreign actors such as Russia and China promote “propaganda and disinformation.”
“The tools and techniques of our adversaries would probably be the number one topic. So what are the campaigns we see, foreign propaganda actors, like Russia, China, Iran or terrorist organizations, what campaigns are they conducting, what tools are they using, potentially which narratives they’re promoting,” Kimmage said during the deposition, which was conducted in November and made public this week. “And we would be in listening mode for anything the companies wanted to share.”…