Elon Musk posted a very concerning revelation on X. It depicts the Department of Defense, through DARPA, paying Thomson Reuters Special Services for “Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Large Scale Social Deception (LSD).”
Sounds ominous. What makes it worse is that this was established in 2018… for Covid. Wait, what?
Here’s Musk’s post:
Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”.
That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam.
Just wow.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1889896827513868734
He was referencing a post by Mario Nawfal:
DOD PAID REUTERS $9M FOR “SOCIAL ENGINEERING” PROGRAM
DOGE investigations reveal mysterious Defense Department payments to Reuters for “large scale social deception” project between 2018-2022.
While DARPA claims it was for cyber defense, questions swirl about why a news agency received millions for “social engineering.”
The revelation comes as other media outlets face scrutiny over federal funding.
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1889895315970392215
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Many of the proposed Community Notes cite references to programs coordinated by Reuters that focus on fighting “disinformation” and inappropriate social engineering. But just because they claim their motives are positive doesn’t change the fact that they’ve participated in spreading disinformation in the name of “stopping” disinformation.
This has been demonstrated clearly by the push to promote ineffective and dangerous Covid jabs. Conspicuously, the contract was for 2018 (before Covid) through 2022 (peak injection time).
Why did they have a program set up to fight Covid disinformation before Covid was known to exist? Why were they tasked with social engineering and “large scale social deception” by DARPA? What will DOGE and the Trump administration do about this?
The program may be ended but the deception is ongoing.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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