SA nepo baby Elon "Nazi" musk named head of Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

[yaesu]

The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s X as an “innovative” tool to help do it.

The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday and obtained by the Guardian, also suggests embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s psychological operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. It lays out a sweeping set of instructions for how embassy staff should push back against what it describes as coordinated foreign efforts to undermine American interests abroad.

It comes as the United States is at war with Iran, whose government has for decades operated one of the world’s most sophisticated and prolific state disinformation apparatuses, and as Russian and Chinese influence operations continue to target American allies across Europe, Asia and Latin America.

The cable instructs those embassies and consulates to pursue five broad goals: countering hostile messaging, expanding access to information, exposing adversary behavior, elevating local voices who support American interests, and promoting what it calls “telling America’s story”. Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging, an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. So amongst that, it looks like "secretly interfere with elections to promote pro-Trump parties"

exposing adversary behavior, elevating local voices who support American interests, and promoting what it calls “telling America’s story”

"Local voices who support American interests" means people like Orban or Farage. But pay locals to be the face of it, so it's not blindingly obvious. Why not - it worked for Putin in the US.

[sop]

2. Did Rubio and Musk intentionally publicize this? Propaganda is most effective when it remains a secret.

[Lonestarblue]

3. In other words, use the sewer of lies that is X to undermine the facts being disseminated by other countries.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Our embassies can do whatever they want.

But if the 'propaganda' is fact-based and real, then we will just look like even bigger fools and liars.

If that is possible.

[Dr. T]

5. "...campaigns against foreign propaganda..."

Tell us, Little Marco, how are we to defend against domestic propaganda like Faux News?