[ClearCase_guy]

Just the headline alone manages to make two digs at the Trump Admin.

[Red Badger]

Baseless?

He has the purchase order................

[Skwor]

Here we go again with “no evidence” and “baseless”

And they wonder why no one believes them and hates them.

[MNJohnnie]

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.

[Da Coyote]

“Baseless Musk claim”?
Coming from the single-digit IQ media?
Bwahahahahahahah!

[MNJohnnie]

Why would this be a DOD initiative since it clearly a law enforcement issue?

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.

[albie]

Hahaha… “that Reuters, a respected global news agency,” What a sense of humor! Almost BB worthy

[chiller]

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.

[blackdog]

So what was $9 million dollars to Reuters for? Subscriptions ruse again?

[FlipWilson]

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.

[KTM rider]

FACEBOOK is another leftist radical platform for manipulating facts and BY ADMISSION performing algorithm manipulation in order to influence public opinion ( AI mind control )

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

[Teacher317]

a contract awarded during his own administration

True, but he (and we) have since discovered what a large percentage of his hires were simply Deep State devotees. He CLEARLY is not making that mistake again. Just because it was authorized during Trump I, does not mean that Trump II cannot oppose and fix it. In fact, it gives even more reason and proper moral authority to fix the mistakes of the past that were done during Trump I.

[aspasia]

a contract awarded during his own administration

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

[Lazamataz]

Trump Demands ‘Radical Left’ Reuters Return $9 Million to US Gov — That He Gave Them — After Baseless Elon Musk Claim

Ah! Back to their tried-and-true gaslighting!

Elon Musk's controversial claims are baseless, unfounded, and unsubstantiated. This is sweeping and systemic disinformation. These spurious accusations have been thoroughly debunked, utterly refuted, and completely put to rest. No credible evidence exists to support these shaky assertions, and numerous fact-checkers have marked these allegations as FALSE. Based on the reports of these fact-checkers alone, there is no further need to investigate these outlandish claims. They have been thoroughly discredited and contradicted. Continuing to push these far-fetched conspiracies, in the form of Russian lies, is sedition.

[Teacher317]

Even their link to the publicly available document literally says “LARGE SCALE DECEPTION” and “ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE”, repeatedly.

[PMAS]

“study large-scale social deception” - the word STUDY was not on the purchase order.

[lurk]

In 2018 all of the funny money was hidden out of sight.

This is 2025. We have DOGE and Elon’s teenage phenoms. We see more.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Steve_Seattle]

"Trump demands Reuters return money that HE gave them"

Of course, the fact that the money was awarded during the Trump administration doesn't mean that Trump even knew about it. More sleazy journalism.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Baseless”. Elon Musk’s bowel movements have more credibility than anything ever produced by Mediaite.