Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide
The war in Iran has exposed the need to mount a defense against foreign influence campaigns, officials and experts say.
Internal document: the US State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, after Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts
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Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned …
Sources: the US State Department has effectively dismantled its three-year-old Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, firing between nine and 11 staffers
Departures and restructuring will make it harder for the agency to pursue global policies that strengthen its own critical infrastructure, experts said.
How Iranian and Israeli hacking groups spent years sparring online; the US State Department is offering $10M for info on members of Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers
As hackers have inserted themselves into the military conflict between Israel and Iran, American officials are focused on trying …
Internal messages show how during trade negotiations, the US State Department pushed nations facing tariffs to clear regulatory hurdles for SpaceX's Starlink
Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. Gustaf Kilander / The Independent : US is pushing Starlink on nations facing tariffs as Musk stands to benefit from trade deals: report...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the elimination of R/FIMI, an office aimed at tracking and countering foreign disinformation campaigns
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s... Katie Kirchner / @katie-kirchner : That someone can “appear” to be something and face the state violence of deportation is both so incredibly infuriating, and yet, so dee...
In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in Azure were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 organizations' emails
The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month
Source: the US State Department cancels meetings with Meta about the 2024 election, one day after a judge limited Biden officials' contact with tech companies
A Louisiana federal court's order limiting the Biden administration's communications with tech firms already is disrupting efforts to fight misinformation.