{"podcast":{"title":"The Tech Policy Press Podcast","slug":"the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134","podcast_index_feed_id":1378134,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/techpolicypress/","website_url":"https://techpolicy.press","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/13a4e094-bfb8-4b58-b59d-02b8f292a6f2/BgtfDWriiMrD_96Bs7jeTwKM.png","author":"Tech Policy Press","episode_count":300,"summary":"Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. You can find us at https://techpolicy.press/, where you can join the newsletter.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134"},"episode":{"title":"X is a Preferred Tool for American Propaganda. What Does It Mean?","slug":"x-is-a-preferred-tool-for-american-propaganda-what-does-it-mean","published_at":"2026-04-05T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/x-is-a-preferred-tool-for-american-propaganda-what-does-it-mean","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134","url":"https://techpolicy.press/x-is-a-preferred-tool-for-american-propaganda-what-does-it-mean","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/749540c3-1c25-41d3-9f1a-289a1f60ad64.mp3","summary":"Last week, The Guardian reported that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed American embassies and consulates to counter foreign propaganda. Notably, the cable apparently endorses Elon Musk’s X as an “innovative” tool to help do it, even as it directs diplomats to coordinate with the US military’s psychological operations unit to counter what the administration deems as disinformation. Today’s guest is Kate Klonick , a law professor at St. John's University and a senior editor at Lawfare. In a piece on Lawfare last week, Klonick says that the State Department issuing a formal cable endorsing a specific social media platform for use in its messaging—and doing so in the same document that it encourages collaboration with military psychological operations—would have been nearly unthinkable until recent months. But it’s just the latest in a series of developments that suggest Elon Musk’s X is regarded as the preferred tool of the state. Let’s jump right in.","meta_description":"Last week, The Guardian reported that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed American embassies and consulates to counter foreign propa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2039,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/episodes/x-is-a-preferred-tool-for-american-propaganda-what-does-it-mean/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/x-is-a-preferred-tool-for-american-propaganda-what-does-it-mean.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}