The Download: foreign disinformation intel, and gene-edited pork
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Summary
A previously unreported document distributed by a senior US State Department official has revealed a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between staff of a small government office focused on online disinformation, and a lengthy list of public and private figures.
This includes many who are longtime targets of the political right, such as Anne Applebaum, Bill Kristol, and the Stanford Internet Observatory.
Additionally, the US has approved CRISPR pigs for food, with the animals now poised to enter the food chain following approval of the animals this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Microsoft has also hiked the price of its Xbox games console by 27% in the US, whilst Europe wants to replicate America’s military-industrial complex.