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 spokesperson did not directly address the cable’s endorsement of X or its directive to coordinate with military psychological operations units. It is not common for the state department to openly combine public diplomacy with military psychological operations. Last year, the FBI had its foreign influence taskforce dissolved and the state department shuttered the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub. Musk, who owns X, had an influential special advisory role in the Trump administration through the so-called department of government efficiency (Doge).

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2026 14:23 UTC