How diplomats see the world - by Abi Olvera
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A glimpse inside the boring-by-design U.S. fact-checking machine.
This article originally appeared in Issue 15: Work. Subscribe to the print magazine to get future issues delivered to your door. A few years into my Foreign Service career, a colleague leaked a falsehood to the press. I couldn’t figure out why they’d done it. A more experienced colleague explained the situation to me: The leaker was trying to break into partisan Washington. Their false claim supported a narrative favored by certain political leaders — and saying what powerful people want to hear opens doors. That colleague was competing to enter offices on the Hill, a world with entirely…
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