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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6493. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Subtitle _—Countering Adversarial Propaganda
SEC. _1. ANNUAL REPORT ON FOREIGN MALIGN INFLUENCE
ACTIVITIES.
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for five
years, the President, in coordination with the heads of
relevant departments and agencies, shall submit to Congress a
report that includes the following:
(1) An assessment of the threats posed by foreign malign
influence activities targeting the United States or its
allies and partners conducted by the Russian Federation, the
People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the Republic of
Cuba.
(2) A description of significant foreign malign influence
activities by foreign adversaries identified during the
preceding year, including activities conducted through—
(A) coordinated inauthentic behavior, adversarial
propaganda, and malign influence campaigns;
(B) cyber-enabled information operations;
(C) cognitive, psychological, or behavioral influence
activities;
(D) covert, proxy, or state-sponsored media operations; and
(E) artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities, including
generative artificial intelligence systems, synthetic media,
deepfakes, automated content generation, and other emerging
technologies.
(3) An assessment of significant incidents undertaken by
foreign adversaries during the preceding year involving
foreign-sponsored influence operations targeting democratic
institutions, elections, government decision-making, critical
infrastructure, public opinion, or societal cohesion in the
United States and allied and partner nations.
(4) An analysis of emerging trends, tactics, techniques,
and procedures employed by foreign adversaries to conduct
foreign malign influence activities, including the
integration of artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities,
proxy networks, state-owned media, and other instruments of
national power.
(5) An assessment of vulnerabilities within the United
States and allied nations that may be exploited by foreign
malign influence campaigns.
(6) An evaluation of the effectiveness of United States
Government efforts to identify, expose, deter, counter, and
mitigate foreign malign influence activities.
(7) A description of coordination among relevant
departments and agencies.
(8) Recommendations for legislative, diplomatic,
informational, intelligence, economic, technological, or
other actions necessary to counter existing and emerging
foreign malign influence threats.
(b) Form.—
(1) In general.—Each report required by subsection (a)
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(2) Public availability.—The unclassified portion of each
report required by subsection (a) shall be made publicly
available on an internet website of the Federal Government
not later than 30 days after submission to Congress.
SEC. _2. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVERSARIAL PROPAGANDA WATCHER
PROGRAM.
(a) Establishment.—Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall
establish a program, to be known as the “Adversarial
Propaganda Watchers Program”, within the Department of State
to strengthen the capacity of the United States to monitor,
expose, and respond to efforts by foreign malign actors to
manipulate local information environments in a manner
contrary to the interests of the United States and partner
governments.
(b) Functions.—The Adversarial Propaganda Watchers Program
shall—
(1) identify, monitor, and analyze foreign malign
operations conducted by the Russian Federation, the People's
Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the Republic of
Cuba;
(2) strengthen the capacity of the United States Government
to engage with host governments, other partner governments,
and regional and international organizations and institutions
to coordinate responses to adversarial propaganda,
coordinated inauthentic behavior, and malign influence
operations; and
(3) support capacity-building for partner countries,
including through nongovernmental entities, to detect and
respond to adversarial propaganda, coordinated inauthentic
behavior, and malign influence operations.
(c) Placement.—In carrying out the Adversarial Propaganda
Watchers Program, the Secretary of State shall place officers
in select United States diplomatic and consular posts in
high-risk partner countries who have sufficient subject
matter expertise, language skills, and training to
effectively carry out the functions described in subsection
(b).