L. Gordon Crovitz, a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is co-CEO of NewsGuard, which assesses the reliability of news sources and claims spreading online.
The United States has unilaterally disarmed in the information wars. The Trump administration has ended key efforts to defend against Russian, Chinese and Iranian targeting of Americans with false claims.
This disarmament includes largely dismantling the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which was the leading U.S. intelligence operation charged with “mitigating threats to democracy and U.S. national interests,” including efforts by adversaries to influence popular opinion. The U.S. also recently canceled a cooperation agreement with European allies to identify and expose disinformation operations targeting Americans and their allies. The Trump administration defends its abdication by claiming it is countering censorship, but warning of false claims by hostile governments provides Americans with more information, not less.
Adversaries take advantage of U.S. unilateral disarmament on foreign propaganda by gaslighting Americans. Several Chinese state-controlled propaganda outlets, including Xinhua-owned newspaper Reference News, last month tried to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel by posting a video claiming two U.S. military pilots had been arrested at the Pentagon after they refused to fly U.S. munitions to Israel. This was false. The video actually showed two veterans at a congressional hearing...
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