Die US -Abkommen mit Europa endet, um die Desinformation aus feindlichen Staaten zu bekämpfen

naturally. After all, the MAGA cult is living off of russian disinfo 😀

Because it’s them – they’re one of the ones spreading it. Obviously. 

„this administration’s pro-free speech position, it was woefully and embarrassingly ineffective on its own terms“

This government is anti free speech. Also, conservatives gain from Russian meddling.

**The US is set to step back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from countries including** [**Russia**](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/russia)**, China, and** [**Iran**](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/iran)**, according to European officials.**

[European countries](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe) received a notice from the [State Department](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/us-state-department) last week about the move, explaining that the US is terminating a memorandum of understanding which was signed in 2024 under President [Joe Biden](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mean-guy-trump-rips-biden-184633212.html), the officials told [*The Financial Times*](https://www.ft.com/content/d31b56e3-aca9-4ee7-af5a-abec74830455).

The agreements had been created to form a unified approach to identifying and exposing harmful information from Russia, China and Iran, designed to sow chaos.

The initiative was run by the Global Engagement Centre (GEC), the State Department agency that tackled disinformation spread overseas by US adversaries and terror groups.

James Rubin, who led the GEC until December, described the move as a „unilateral act of disarmament“ in the information war against Russia and China.

“Information warfare is a reality of our time and artificial intelligence is only going to multiply the risks from that,” he said.

The Trump administration has dismantled a number of agencies in government which had sought to protect the integrity of US elections and to combat foreign malign influence.

After it was established in 2011 to counter violent extremism and terrorist propaganda online, the centre’s mission was expanded to include tracking and exposing disinformation campaigns.

But Republicans in Congress blocked efforts to extend the agency’s mandate, leading to its closure by the Trump administration in April.

Terminating the memoranda of understanding with European countries is the final step to closing the programme.

Darren Beattie, acting under-secretary for public diplomacy at the State Department, said: “Far from spiking a single plan, we were proud to spike the entire GEC. Not only was GEC’s infamous censorship activity profoundly misaligned with this administration’s pro-free speech position, it was woefully and embarrassingly ineffective on its own terms.”

Russia has been accused of [malicious involvement in a series of elections](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-tusk-tusk-poland-warsaw-polish-b2752506.html) both inside and outside Europe, most famously in the 2016 US election which saw Donald Trump elected for his first term.

According to the US Intelligence Community, Russia launched a “hacking and disinformation campaign” at the direct orders of president Vladimir Putin, in order to damage Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president and help Trump take office in the White House.

Both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump denied that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election.

Since 2016, Moscow has appeared to make efforts to meddle in a series of elections across Europe, boosting the chances of parties and figures who are deemed pro-Russia, or at least take a far softer stance on Russia.

Nice, less co-operation with Americans is always better.

The new administration is somehow a hostile state run on disinformation, for the benefit of their ultra rich.

Oh well, that’s obvious. The US administration is a provider of fakes.

But of course.

The US is the hostile threat

Good.

America is the hostile state as most of the bs online comes from them.

Arsonist terminates agreements with fire department to help fight criminal fires.

Russian asset

The US is a hostile state using disinformation. It has always been.

Well, they are part of the hostile states now, so…

Trump is a Russian asset. He is not an ally of Europe. The sooner Europe can stand on its own, the better for Europe and the rest of the world.

US so called social media platforms that allow and actively encourage the spread of hate speech and propaganda are a clear and present danger to democracy across the globe.

There should be a tax on every advertisement that is shown to a European citizen in order to fund the regulation of these companies’ European activities.

So does that mean we can go after all the American social media companies without any issues now. They are the biggest source of disinformation.

Criminals are running the USA right now….