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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2045686/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2045686/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> James B. Milliken, University of Texas system chancellor, named UC president <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FirstGenerationStudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstGenerationStudent</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HighEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighEducation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/milliken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>milliken</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/statement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statement</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TexasSystemChancellor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexasSystemChancellor</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UC</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UcPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UcPresident</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USTopics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USANews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USANews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>year</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>Everything Is the ‘<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TwitterFiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterFiles</span></a>’ Now</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept is using <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s playbook.</p><p>by Charlie Warzel</p><p>“Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here. A high-ranking member of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration is turning federal-government <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>—in this case, State Department communications—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXH42uhDx8m-O99wIxCNkhQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/technology/arc</span><span class="invisible">hive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXH42uhDx8m-O99wIxCNkhQ</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept staffers say they fear a selective disclosure of documents…could be distorted to fit any…narrative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rubio</span></a>, or others create.</p><p>Weaponizing any speech…by deeming it <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> is not only ironic, says Jankowicz—it will also have “chilling effects” on anyone who conducts disinformation <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a>, & it will result in “less <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oversight</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a> over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/platforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platforms</span></a>, …adversarial activities, [&]…people who are legitimately trying to disenfranchise US voters.”</p>
Nonilex<p>An hour after staff were informed, Secy of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> published a blog announcing the news on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a>, one of the outlets that sued <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GEC</span></a> over allegations of *censorship*. He then discussed in an interview w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> Internet personality <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeBenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeBenz</span></a> plans for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a> to lead a “transparency effort.”</p><p>“What we have to do now—& Darren will be big involved in that…is…document what happened…because…people who were harmed deserve to know…,& be able to prove…they were harmed.”</p>
Nonilex<p>🚨🚨 Several people familiar with the matter say that by early April, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a> had received many of the documents he’d requested, retrieved through eRecords, as well as a list of grantees. One source says the more sensitive list of subgrantees was not shared.</p><p>…5 weeks after Beattie made his requests for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept shut down R/FIMI.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Employees worried about the sensitivity & impropriety of the broad scope of the information requested, particularly because records would be <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/unredacted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unredacted</span></a>, as well as about how the search would be conducted: through the eRecords file management system, which makes it easy for administrative staff to search through & retrieve <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept employees’ emails, typically in response to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FOIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOIA</span></a> requests. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It also asked for a search for 32 right-wing buzzwords related to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionDenial</span></a>, & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a>, suggesting a determined effort to find <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept staff who even just discussed such matters.</p><p>Multiple sources say State Dept employees raised alarms internally about the records requests.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a> delivered the request, which he framed as a “transparency” initiative, to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept ofcls in a conference room at its Washington, DC, HQ on a Tues afternoon in early March, in the form of an 11-pg packet titled, “SO [Senior Official] Beattie Inquiry for GEC/R/FIMI Records.” The documents were printed out, rather than emailed.</p><p>Labeled “sensitive but unclassified,” the document lays out Beattie’s requests in 12 separate, but sometimes repetitive, bullet points.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Several <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept staffers call the records requests “unusual” & “improper” in their scope.…</p><p>While they acknowledge that previous political appointees have, on occasion, made information requests through the records management system, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a>’s request was something wholly different.</p><p>Never had “an incoming political appointee” sought to “search through 7 years’ worth of all staff emails to see whether anything negative had been said about his friends,” says one staffer.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a> has also personally promoted these views. Before joining the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept, he started Revolver News, a website that espouses <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> talking points that often gain traction in certain *conservative* circles. Among the ideas promoted in Revolver News is that GEC was part of a “censorship industrial complex” aimed at suppressing American <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> voices, even though GEC’s mission was foreign <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DanielFried" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DanielFried</span></a> echoes this sentiment. “I spent 40 years in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept, & you didn’t collect names or demand email records…I’ve never heard of such a thing”—at least not in the American context, he clarifies. It did remind him of Eastern European “Communist Party minder[s] watching over the untrusted bureaucracy.” </p><p>He adds: “It also approaches the compilation of an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnemiesList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnemiesList</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…included among the nearly 60 individuals & orgs caught up in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a>’s information dragnet are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillGates</span></a>; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> outlet <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bellingcat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bellingcat</span></a>; fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> special agent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClintWatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClintWatts</span></a>; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NancyFaeser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NancyFaeser</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>’s interior minister; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DanielFried" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DanielFried</span></a>, a career <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> ofcl & fmr US ambassador to Poland; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ren%C3%A9eDiResta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenéeDiResta</span></a>, an expert in online <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> who led research at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StanfordInternetObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StanfordInternetObservatory</span></a>; & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NinaJankowicz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NinaJankowicz</span></a>, a researcher who briefly led the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> Disinformation Governance Board.</p>
Nonilex<p>The document, dated March 11, 2025, focuses specifically on records & communications from the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (R/FIMI) Hub, a small office in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracked & countered foreign <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> campaigns; it was created after the Global Engagement Center (<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GEC</span></a>), which had the same mission, shut down at the end of 2024. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> Technology Review broke the news earlier this month that R/FIMI would be shuttered.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>For several people who received or saw the document, the broad requests for unredacted information felt like a “witch hunt,”…one that could put the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> of numerous individuals & organizations at risk. </p><p>Beattie, whom <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> appointed in Feb to be the acting undersecretary for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a>, told <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept ofcls that his goal…was a “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TwitterFiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterFiles</span></a>” like release of internal State Dept documents “to rebuild trust with the American public”….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a></p>
axolotl solidario<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MayDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MayDay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cdmx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdmx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/roundup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roundup</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> </p><p>This has already made the rounds in spanish social media so i thought i would mention it in english, cuz the struggle is internacional and all that good stuff.</p><p>First there was the usual. I went to a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/march" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>march</span></a> for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workers</span></a>. A lively group stroll numbering a few hundred heads plus a radical marching band, taking a non-typical route, zig-zagging through the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/working" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>working</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>class</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/barrio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barrio</span></a> of the Merced. </p><p>We in the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@catl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>catl</span></a></span> split from the march before it got the the main square, the Zocalo, and went to set up for the activity planned for the day, a commemoration of Mayday's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchist</span></a> history. I shot ahead on bike and along the way i crossed paths with a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackbloc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackbloc</span></a>, smashing and looting a starbucks and circleK, and giving away the looted items to the houseless folks in the zone.</p><p>Our participation was a little more chill. Like most of our events, we took public space to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/share" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>share</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zines</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/struggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>struggle</span></a>, in what we called a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/street" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>street</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forum</span></a>. </p><p>After the event, around 4:30, most of us were on our way to a space called the clandestine for a discussion on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> and later, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>party</span></a> (one of the pillars of struggle, and an important one). But before we got there we were notified that one of the musicians that performed at our event, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rapper</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/friend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friend</span></a> Anonimo Uno, had been arrested in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/metro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metro</span></a> (another activist, his partner, was also arrested but quickly released).</p><p>He had been caught putting up a sticker. For this he was attacked, pinned, and put in pain compliance positions by a plethora of uniformed state thugs, before being dragged off. His partner was arrested for bravely recording the attack, getting out the video that was key, not only as viral propaganda, but as legal evidence. </p><p>And what did they charge him with? Groping a police officer, while hand-cuffed and pinned down. This may be an emerging new tactic of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mexican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> of weaponizing new sex assault laws against activists.</p><p>After we got over the inicial confusion plus a hour or so of not knowing where he had been taken, or as we say "in a disappeared state" a plan was made to mass up in front of the Fiscalía (DA?), a building unaffectionately known as "el bunker". It wasnt the first time we held space in front of that building, and it definitively wont be the last. </p><p>Fortunately the bunker is next to a relatively main transit artery, which we are sure to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/block" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>block</span></a> and form some minor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/barricades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barricades</span></a> every time we visit. </p><p>As the news got around, more and more folks showed up, numbering over a hundred.We made some noise, painted messages of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> on the walls, kept blocking the roads and after a few hours of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disruption</span></a>, Anonimo was freed and in the company of his very relived mother and friends. </p><p>Both freed hommies told us of their ordeal over a megaphone, and the crowd hissed and cursed the police every time their violence was exposed. We shouted at full volume, "death to the state, long live <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a>", and "a conscious police shots themselves in the head" (it rhymes in spanish).</p><p>Afterwards, the vast majority of the rabble walked together to the nearest metro. This was for security, but also the time honored tradition of "metro popular". For the uninitiated, this is basically taking over the turnstile area en mass, opening the side doors, and letting everyone (radical and passerby alike) to enter for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a>. Of course this is accompanied by a lot of yelling: declarations of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a>, uncomfortable truths, brutal take downs of the state. </p><p>For my part, i hung around the metro for a bit, saying my see you laters, soaking in the alboroto echoing off the metro walls, then biked home in a light drizzle.</p>
Nonilex<p>The document, originally shared in person w/roughly a dozen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept employees in early March, requested staff emails & other records with or about a host of individuals & organizations that track or write about foreign <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> — including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlantic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AnneApplebaum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnneApplebaum</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span>, fmr US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> official <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisKrebs</span></a>, & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StanfordInternetObservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StanfordInternetObservatory</span></a> — or have criticized <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> & his allies, such as the conservative anti-Trump commentator <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BillKristol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillKristol</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p>A previously unreported document distributed by snr US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept ofcl <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a> reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff of a small govt office focused on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>online</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> & a lengthy list of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/private" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>private</span></a> figures—many of whom are longtime targets of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Department official sought internal communications with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> officials, & Trump <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/critics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>critics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> buzzwords for a “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TwitterFiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterFiles</span></a>” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/05/0</span><span class="invisible">1/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The writer, Gabriella Cantor, pointed out the obvious <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConflictOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConflictOfInterest</span></a>: The archivist is supposed to ensure that other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>, including the 2 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rubio</span></a> is also leading, preserve records. Now, with the addition of the White House <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> Council [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSC</span></a>], that becomes thornier.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NARA</span></a></p>
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