US state agency unit combating foreign disinformation snubbed for extension

The Global Engagement Center, which addresses foreign influence operations outside the US, left in the lurch

The Global Engagement Center, a state department unit critical to combating foreign disinformation, will not receive a multi-year extension in the latest National Defense Authorization Act, putting its future operations in jeopardy.

The next chapter of the GEC – which only addresses foreign influence operations outside the United States – now relies on Congress to come up with an extension some other way by 24 December, or the United States faces a potential gap in their international disinformation response capabilities.