Sarah B. Rogers

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers on dismantling the "Censorship Industrial Complex" · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

long-time listener, first-time guest, and thank you to both of us.

Thank you from all of us at America House for joining us here.

So I am the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy.

And when I got this nomination, my friends and family all congratulated me and then kind of furtively said, what is that?

So diplomacy traditionally concerns the relationship between the American government and foreign governments.

Two ambassadors shake hands, make a deal, solve a war.

But public diplomacy is different.

Public diplomacy addresses the relationship between the American government and foreign publics.

And this has become a very important undersecretariat with the rise of the internet and then during the Biden administration especially, these mushrooming concerns about so-called disinformation and what do we do when there are allegedly malign influences on the public view of America,

public's intersection with American interests.

How do we interact with the internet and the information ecosystem?

That is part of my portfolio.

I also oversee other soft power activities, including our educational and cultural and sports diplomacy.

So I am privileged to play a role in the World Cup this summer and the LA Olympics coming up, and the Fulbright program and others like it.

So it's a great job.

Sure, absolutely.

So the two main regulations that I've interfaced with since taking office, and part of this is just a product of

My first official trip was to Europe, and while I was in Europe, a large fine came down on an American platform, X, under the Digital Services Act, which I'll get into in a moment.

So Europe, especially since the Second World War, but I think really since the American founding and our codification of the First Amendment, you know, America has taken a much stronger approach on free speech than even most of the West.

And with the rise of the Internet and all communication or a lot of communication becoming transnational,

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