Questions are being asked over the Department of Defense under Biden funding Reuters to the tune of $9 million to engage in “active social engineering” and “large scale deception,” with some claiming conspiracy and others asserting the funding was related to defending against cyber attacks.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been busy targeting the US Agency for International Development, revealing some absolutely ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money being spent on projects around the world.
As part of that process, it has emerged that the US Department of Defense handed $9,147,532 dollars to news agency Reuters for “ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD).”
Can someone explain to me why the Department of Defense provided $9,147,532.00 to Reuters for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)" pic.twitter.com/ESHish9vmC
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 5, 2025
The outlay began in September 2018 and was scheduled to end in November 2022.
Some have asserted that the funds were used in the context of the COVID pandemic to ‘socially engineer’ the public to swallow government narratives about the virus and the vaccine.
Anyone who wondered if media campaigns during #covid were well-orchestrated #psyops can stop wondering
— Sharon Polsky MAPP (@PolskySays) February 5, 2025
The US Department of Defense provided $9,147,532.00 to Reuters for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)"@ryangerritsen @Martyupnorth_2 pic.twitter.com/BBeutItzAr
However, others have claimed that the money was actually part of a DARPA program started under the first Trump administration to prevent hacking and deception by malicious actors.
So many misunderstandings these days.
— Stuart Buck (@stuartbuck1) February 5, 2025
This guy is upset over a $9.1 million to Thomson Reuters related to "social deception"
What it actually was: A DARPA program that started under Trump in 2018 on how to *prevent* hacking/deceptionhttps://t.co/7ehKcMMD9k https://t.co/xG8QZbGqmE
A page about the program on DARPA’s website explains that it was intended to “identify, disrupt, and investigate social engineering attacks” targeting the military and critical infrastructure.
While that explanation seems valid, it’s still a mystery as to why Reuters, a news network, was involved in the program.
Meanwhile, the media is claiming that the Trump administration announcing it would cancel $8 million worth of Politico subscriptions was driven by a “false right-wing conspiracy theory.”
After it was revealed that federal agencies were spending $8.2 million on Politico Pro, CNN claimed that the issue was being deliberately mischaracterized because “the payments are not exclusively USAID funds.”
However, commentator Tim Pool hit back by calling CNN “evil lying garbage.”
“It is a FACT that the US gov spends an exorbitant amount of money on pro accounts for media companies,” said Pool.
“In one instance the Department of Energy spent $400,000 in one year for 172 subscriptions.”
“It’s an indirect way to prop them up while feigning ignorance.”
CNN Is evil lying garbage
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) February 6, 2025
It is a FACT that the US gov spends an exorbitant amount of money on pro accounts for media companies
In one instance the Department of Energy spent $400,000 in one year for 172 subscriptions
Its an indirect way to prop them up while feigning… pic.twitter.com/HGcsQepFr7
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As a Nam combat veteran, I know what the same media of snap shots and sound bites told you six decades ago my Boomers, and I’m here to tell you that you were played by two sides against the middle that was the people and America’s defenses, civic and national, and both sides used the “dastardly military complex” as their scapegoat that the people were propagandized to lambast for six decades.
Let me enlighten you.
The military is directly subordinate to the President and Commander in Chief. Bad Executive Branch (Party), bad military. Now imagine both Parties joining into a non dissenting uniparty of comrades under say, the Democrat Party banner since the mid 1990’s (Clinton/Bush and onward) minus President Trump and MAGA patriots.
This hierarchal minded ideal was the brainchild of Communists and Fascists already in America post WWII. “Use the brightest in academia, politics, coming technology to become complicit in destroying their own country, while thinking what they were doing was a good thing blaming the military villain, even a patriotic thing, America “bad”, defense “bad”.
During the intentional tumultuous 1960’s the “chosen” were promulgated by their Marxist and Fascist professors in academia to slander America and anyone in uniform service, personal, civic or national. Incite rioting, murder, burning, bombing in cities under the guise of cultural Revolution based on the self demoralizing perception of responsibility, undetermined by inversion. Create an “anti war movement” no one could deny, blame the military that actually warned that the war would be a logistical nightmare and bloodbath, and vow to march through the institutions (Gramsci) to destroy them and “build back better” (uniparty slogan under Democrat banner).
By mid 1990’s these same people who made names for themselves in Government, academia, tech., as hero’s against bad America and war, has also captured Corporate America, initiated the uniparty, immediately made old friends China and Vietnam “besties”, simultaneously gutting middle American skilled labor, sending it abroad to slave regimes.
Today these seniors in .Gov and institutions are abandoning ship, but their offspring are still out there. You know all the names, including those abroad. MAGA has tracked them all.
Watch the China funded Super Bowl if you must, but if you want not to be blown to bits by war, or have a dastardly military with “flowers in their hair” my Boomers, then don’t elect dastardly Executives Branches that hate the military that are Commanders in Chief like you have been duped into doing for six decades before 11/5/2024.
It is the non believers that believe evil is all but them, and in their nihilistic hierarchal mindset will imprison anyone who dissents. Your only hope is a military of patriots tethered to a unique Constitution that demands the President be the Commander in Chief for the people he/she serves.
The MSM are the Democrat party’s commissars.
Obviously, if you are going to do something shady but you have to label, you will make the name of the program ambiguous just in case you ever get exposed.
I was a kid once. I did it myself. “No, what I actually meant was x.”
Do not be deceived.
Same thing happening in the UK. We have a government funded ‘nudge unit’ which has admitted to the use of unethical, coercive practices on the population during covid and has no doubt continued since then. Basically, a communist style government propaganda department, George Orwell style. Still, I usually know when someone is trying to gaslight me – I didn’t take any of the covid ‘vaccines’.