People are upset the State department spent $650K on improving social media presence

[Recursion]

Here's the IG's report, which was prompted by insiders complaining (one might even say, "whistleblowers&quot .

Here's a WaPo blog.

And, of course, the right is blowing up about it. Here's the Washington Examiner, for example.

Stupid? Good idea?

[bemildred]

1. Stupid. nt

[dkf]

2. Wasteful

See this is all they want whistleblowers to do. Really puny things.

[leveymg]

3. The Voice Of America is now inside your smartphone.

It used to come inside bubblegum wrappers.

[KoKo]

4. Pushing propaganda on Social Media?

I dunno... Sounds a bit like "State Controlled Propaganda" like we do in countries we invade to me.

Sort of like the kind of stuff we used to accuse Soviet Union of doing. You know...those Commies who "spread propaganda" that we used to worry about and armed ourselves against the spread of "State Control of the People." Sort of maybe like North Korea or Iran..as we've been told.

[Mojorabbit]

5. Would have bought a lot of food stamps for people in crisis. Wasteful. nt