State Department Secrets

When in doubt, blame the Russians:

State's guidance to its press officers claimed the journalists violated the correct procedures for interviews, Taibbi's Twitter Files thread was internally contradictory, and that Musk publicly misstated what Taibbi found. State itself confirmed to CNN, however, that GEC pointed Twitter to nearly 250,000 supposed Chinese propaganda accounts. The department faulted Banks by falsely implying he talked to Russian state media about GEC, when it was actually paraphrasing Kaminsky's report that quoted Banks supporting "legislation to ban federal funding of anti-free speech groups." GEC referred Just the News queries for its response to the committee report to the department itself. "The GEC does not engage in censorship, and it is focused on countering foreign disinformation overseas, not on the domestic information environment," a State spokesperson only identified as Jennifer wrote in an email.

It's just disinformation...