This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project.
One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading.
For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through federal agencies, gutting teams that worked on everything from scientific research to Social Security to international aid. So when the employees of the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub (R/FIMI)—a unit tasked with tracking foreign disinformation—received a note asking them to meet in half an hour, many sensed their time had come.
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