NEW!!! Key U.S. Senators pressure Big Tech to fight #russian disinformation ahead of Moldovan elections
Bipartisan letter by #SenatorShaheen and #SenThomTillis
urges Meta and Alphabet to dedicate 'sufficient resources' to prevent foreign interference and political financing, citing warnings from Moldovan President and civil society groups
The Full Report 👇prepared for Senators #SenWarren
#SenatorShaheen, presents four main findings, building a case that the U.S. is failing to use sanctions and export controls to help achieve a “just peace in #Ukraine”
#SenatorShaheen stated that the bill is a "win for America" as it supports the US. defense industry and provides a mechanism for the US. to learn from battlefield innovations in Ukraine. #lisamurkowski
emphasized that the legislation holds Russia accountable by using seized assets and strengthens American military readiness
The bill seeks to increase the President's authority to approve weapons transfers to #Ukraine, raising the drawdown authority to $6 billion annually for the next two years.
HAPPENING NOW! “We are not going to be divided by Vladimir #Putin,” #SenatorShaheen says at #AtlanticCouncil’s #NATO Summit kick-off reception in The Hague:
“We need to send the message that the Transatlantic Alliance is still united, that we are not going to be divided”
NEW!!!
#SenatorShaheen and #ChrisVanHollen
ask #Rubio and Sec Noem to take immediate action to protect USAGM-affiliated journalists under attack
At least 5 of them remain jailed in Vietnam, two in #Russia, one in Belarus, one in Azerbaijan (RFERL's Farid Mehralizada), and two in Myanmar