Deputy U.S. Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy James Glassman told reporters about the State Department’s special information program “Digital External Contacts Team”. The purpose of its creation is to counter “anti-American disinformation” on the Internet abroad.
As part of this program, its participants go to the Internet, chats, popular internet sites and in some cases blogs and talk about U.S. politics, correct mistakes that occur, and also send people to the right documents, the official explained. Until now, this work was carried out in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. And now Glasman said that he is considering the inclusion of several Russian-speaking specialists in the team. They will have to lead a ‘war of ideas’ against extremism on the fields of Runet.

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