The U.S. State Department has been slammed, including in a New York Times story this week, for failing to respond to Russia’s state-led propaganda and misinformation campaign during and after the U.S. 2016 election. Now, officials say they have an explanation: Tillerson and company were devising a classified plan. That plan, a State Department official told VICE News on Monday, is secret. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson “approved a classified strategy to counter state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda,” a State Department official told VICE News on condition of anonymity. The official declined to give more details about the strategy, and …read more
Source: VICE News