The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 prohibits the U.S. government from propagandizing the American public with information and psychological operations directed at foreign audiences. The propoganda and psyops on the internet, despite their being directed at foriegn audiences, will find Americans. Unless they can prove that Americans can't access or be in some way propagandized by the (mis)information - something impossible to prove, they cannot proceede in this operation.
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