Posted on 02/13/2025 8:49:54 AM PST by ransomnote
President Donald Trump unleashed on “Radical Left Reuters” over a 2018 Pentagon contract to “study large-scale social deception”—a contract awarded during his own administration—and demanded the news agency “GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!”
The brief but furious outburst was pushed out early on Thursday as the president cited the revelation as a finding of his newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump posted on Truth Social:
DOGE: Looks like Radical Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study “large scale social deception.” GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!
Indeed, DOGE’s agency head Elon Musk boosted a post on X claiming the contract showed the “news agency received millions for social engineering.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
Just the headline alone manages to make two digs at the Trump Admin.
Baseless?
He has the purchase order................
Here we go again with “no evidence” and “baseless”
And they wonder why no one believes them and hates them.
Dear Morons at Mediate
The idea that the US President oversees every stupid contract the US Government hands out is infantilely stupid even for your room level intellects.
“Baseless Musk claim”?
Coming from the single-digit IQ media?
Bwahahahahahahah!
It is supposedly, note I said supposedly, was in regards to foreign actors infiltrating social media and news agencies.
This one may/may not be legit. But the way it was notated makes it questionable.
Purpose of the Funding: According to various reports, the contract was for defending against social engineering threats and large-scale social deception, focusing on cybersecurity and misinformation prevention. The ASED component aimed to develop systems to detect, analyze, and mitigate cyber threats like phishing and other social engineering attacks.
Just the headline alone manages to make two digs at the Trump Admin.
Good eyes.
Hahaha… “that Reuters, a respected global news agency,” What a sense of humor! Almost BB worthy
Getting 9M back will be a trick since it occurred while he was in office....but don’t underestimate the Donald.
Refusing an order for 9M would be difficult for most organizations,...unless your organization’s role was to report the news without bias.
Shame them to the point of ruin.
“That He Gave Them”.
that is an interesting one.
Really think the US President oversees every penny of every contract the US Government dishes out?
So what was $9 million dollars to Reuters for? Subscriptions ruse again?
Not like Trump personally approved a $9 million contract.
Someone in the Dept of Defense did.
Who?
Time for relentless Alinsky-Proud “Ridicule”.
Mediate and the rest of the legacy media would like you to know that there is no evidence and everything is baseless.
Oh, they would also like you to forget that they said the same thing about Joe Biden’s condition.
I’d like Elon to slap “US GOV FUNDED” tags on ALL of the twitter profiles. (and put links to their contracts and $$ as a sticky)
BBC/ Politico/ Reuters will melt down!
Really think the US President oversees every penny of every contract the US Government dishes out?
There must be a political source financing Facebook, there is absolutely NO WAY Facebook could make enough money to operate on it's own without huge funding from somewhere
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