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Trump administration begins firing 1,353 State Department employees

Huffington Post
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65% Informative

Laid-off State Department employees describe shock, chaotic process of layoffs and concern about the ramifications of gutting diplomatic expertise.

Affected State Department staffers spoke with HuffPost during an afternoon rally in front of the agency.

Dozens of people — including two Democratic lawmakers — gathered to applaud, or “clap out” the terminated employees.

Attendees passed out small flyers bearing a firm message, printed under an American flag: “Here worked America ’s experts on democracy, human rights (yes, which include women’s, LGBTQ+ & minorities’ rights), elections security, freedom of expression, privacy, on countering corruption, violent extremism and disinformation, and more,” it read. “You’ve just released them and hundreds of their colleagues into the wild in the United States of America ..

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68

Informative language

69

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81

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

62

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not offensive

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not hateful

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Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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1

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