Richard Stengel

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Person.png Richard Stengel  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(propagandist)
Richard Stengel 2014.jpg
BornMay 2 1955
NationalityUS
Member ofCouncil on Foreign Relations/Members 3, DFR Lab, NewsGuard
Chief Propagandist

Richard Stengel is the top state media appointee for US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team.

Chief Propagandist

Stengel has enthusiastically defended the use of propaganda against Americans. “My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist,” Stengel said in 2018. “I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”[1]

Stengel has proposed “rethinking” the First Amendment that guarantees the freedom of speech and press. In 2018, he stated, “Having once been almost a First Amendment absolutist, I have really moved my position on it, because I just think for practical reasons in society, we have to kind of rethink some of those things.”



 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201225 January 201229 January 2012World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2113 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/201323 January 201327 January 2013Switzerland2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
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