Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC to Partner With Social Media Firms to ‘Promote Protests Movements’
Widespread protests were a feature of 2020, engulfing 68 nations. However, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a pro-regime-change think tank based in DC, is most preoccupied with those in China and Russia.
Alan MACLEOD
A new report from Washington D.C.-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concludes that the U.S. government should work closely with social media companies to ensure that protest movements around the world result in an outcome more conducive to American interests. Along with intern Riley McCabe, the organization’s senior fellow, Samuel Brannen, argued that the White House, State Department, and intelligence community must explore deeper coordination with major tech companies that provide global media platforms:
Stocks drive higher, brushing aside worries about U.S. stability
Trader Robert Charmak works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in New York. (Nicole Pereira/New York Stock Exchange via AP)
Published January 15. 2021 10:56AM
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Stock prices have soared for months in defiance of an ailing, pandemic-wrecked economy. Now they seem impervious to something even more disturbing: the erosion of American democracy.
Last week s shocking events, when an American president incited a mob to confront lawmakers preparing to certify his electoral defeat, raised alarms about the health of U.S. governing institutions.
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