With social media, State embraces disruption

Jared Cohen, who sits on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's policy planning staff, calls himself a technopragmatist. Technology is neither good nor bad, he said. "The technologies themselves don't choose sides; people do." We can fear them or embrace them, but like it or not, "the tools themselves are out there in the public domain," he added.

The State Department has decided to embrace the new tools. "We are venturing into a foreign policy that takes advantage of the technology" while recognizing the risk, he said.

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