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President Donald Trump during a news conference in the White House briefing room on Monday, April 6, 2026. (Getty Images)
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As the information age becomes the disinformation age, America faces three distinct adversaries, each with its own expertise in marrying cutting-edge technology with age-old methods of manipulation and deception. What are the differences between radical jihadist, Russian, and Chinese propaganda? How is America responding? How should it respond?
Hudson Institute held a roundtable discussion that focused on the whole range of approaches, from US international media to public diplomacy to strategic communications to "grey" and "black" psy-ops, with Jeffrey Gedmin, senior fellow at Atlantic Council and former president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Martha Bayles, visiting fellow at Hudson Institute, and Eric Brown, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute.
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