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They lay out some pretty broad marching orders here:

https://www.state.gov/information-for-journalists

For interviewing State Department people, yes. Do they tell journalists how to report on international events? If so, you need a different URL to demonstrate it...

They don’t have to take orders. They know implicitly what the State wants. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have their jobs.

This has been explained repeatedly since “Manufacturing Consent”.

I mean, we know that both Twitter and Facebook took marching orders from both the state of California and the Biden administration and no one seemed to care, so whatever.