{"id":57866,"date":"2023-05-09T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57866"},"modified":"2023-05-09T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T23:28:38","slug":"u-s-north-macedonia-memorandum-of-understanding-to-create-a-strategic-counter-disinformation-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57866","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-North Macedonia Memorandum of Understanding to Create a Strategic Counter-Disinformation Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/09\/2023 06:34 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting with U.S. Secretary\u00a0of State Blinken on May 8, 2023, North Macedonia\u2019s Prime Minister,\u00a0Dimitar\u00a0Kovachevski,<wbr \/>\u00a0and U.S.\u00a0Special Envoy\u00a0and Coordinator for the Global Engagement Center James P. Rubin signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining cooperation between the two NATO allies in the fight against the manipulation of information.<\/p>\n<p>This MOU\u00a0followed meetings held in Skopje on April 11, 2023, between the Government of North Macedonia and the U.S. Department of State. \u00a0During those meetings,\u00a0both sides expressed concerns about efforts\u00a0by\u00a0Russia\u00a0and others to deploy disinformation to undermine democracy and national security around the globe. \u00a0The new MOU\u00a0will enable closer cooperation in the increasingly vital effort\u00a0to combat misinformation and disinformation,\u00a0protect\u00a0<wbr \/>democratic processes, and build resilient information ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/09\/2023 06:34 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57867,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57866\/revisions\/57867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}