You completely misunderstood what everyone was talking about. The point is to make people in other countries do what we want them to do.

American diplomacy, foreign policy, spying, soft, and hard power etc is obviously primarily targeting non Americans here.

Thus like most things the CIA does this is targeting foreigners or foreign influence, though of course direct impact on Americans is a nice bonus. We don’t want young Americans looking up facts on a Chinese or Russian website.