Department’s Global Engagement

it as something that gives them an advantage, or at least levels the playing field. Russia’s core disinformation doctrine claims as justification that it is the best way to match the strategic advantage of the United States. And all of our adversaries recognize that their strategic messaging is less successful when it is identified as coming directly from their capitals — Moscow, Beijing, or Tehran — than when they can disguise it as other voices, emanating from other locations. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which operated from 2016 to the end of 2024, focused its daily efforts on identifying and countering FIMI from Russia, China, Iran, the global terror networks of al-Qaeda, ISIS/Da’esh, ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), and al-Shabaab, and other violent extremist organizations. These groups all have separate goals, but they also all have a long track record of using FIMI to disrupt adversaries, recruit new followers, raise funds, evade sanctions, and advance their political ideologies and economic interests. สล็อต เว็บตรง