Posted on 02/13/2025 8:17:00 AM PST by Red Badger
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.
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://t.co/GGxoVQSwN8— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 13, 2025
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.
🚨🇺🇸 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… https://t.co/8jfgRLW8Fv pic.twitter.com/DAcppcf2j9— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 13, 2025
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.
🤯
Because Thomson Reuters is not getting enough grift from legal publishing.
The swamp has a lot of Goebbels in it.
There are a lot of very rich powerful people who must be really freaking out right now about President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE.
I did not see that coming.
omg—the leftist scam artists and evil schemers burrowed into every little nook and cranny of .gov.
Goebbels would be shocked..................
Not "LSSD," but "LSD." How perfectly appropriate.
DARPA invented the military industrial complex. Has top secret funding. It cant get much deeper than this ?
I know I posted this before but if you didn’t listen to this you really should. The scope of all the rot is incredible. The Dem’s of course try to make their points but their arguments are overwhelmed by their rank hypocrisy of the last 4 yrs.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Nv-KacweHNQ?si=p2fC6hxvk-_67cgc
I would advise President Trump, Musk and the Musketeers to stay put in the White House. JD would do well to stick close. Can the SS, FBI, CIA or any other organ be trusted.
I think the Trump team is wrong on this one.
A quick search shows that Thomson Reuters Services has contracts with the U.S. government for “law enforcement, corporate security, and fraud investigations.”
For example, here’s an article about Thomson Reuters’ $3.4M contract with ICE in 2019 (Trump’s first term):
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-has-a-new-dollar34m-contract-with-thomson-reuters-to-identify-threats-against-agency-officials/
Link to my last post with more info:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4297327/posts?page=43#43
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