US State Department has decided to fund the fight against disinformation against NATO . This is stated in the description of the grant, which RT reviewed.
The document notes that “actions by a number of state and non-state actors” undermine the unity “” of the North Atlantic Alliance. The State Department wants to strengthen the bloc’s influence by opposing such actions. No more than 25 thousand dollars can be allocated for a grant, it must be implemented within a year and a half.
The department welcomed proposals to use digital technologies and social networks, analyze the gaps in NATO strategies and solve existing problems in practice. The target audience of the projects is young people, representatives of the security and defense spheres, as well as politicians.
On November 27, it was reported that the US State Department prepared to allocate 800 thousand dollars for “rendering assistance to Ukraine”: Washington intends to continue the program of cooperation with European countries. The project assumes that the United States and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe will work together to “transfer experience in the field of transition measures and integration to Kiev with EU “.