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Trump Orders Media Blackout At Government Agencies: Bans Use Of Social Media, Bars New EPA Contracts
Zero Hedge ^ | 1-24-2017 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 01/24/2017 3:27:59 PM PST by blam

It wasn't just the EPA.

Earlier today, we reported that the Trump administration instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants.

Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press, detailed the specific prohibitions banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency's social media accounts. On Monday, the Huffington Post reported that EPA grants had been frozen, with agency employees barred from speaking of the matter. The memo ordering the social media blackout is shown below.

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(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epa; epaoutofcontrol; government; mediablackout; trump; winning
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1 posted on 01/24/2017 3:27:59 PM PST by blam
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Social media could be useful in getting around teh dishonest, distorted media.


2 posted on 01/24/2017 3:29:53 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: blam

This will upset the commie moles embedded in the government.


3 posted on 01/24/2017 3:30:13 PM PST by blam
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My private sector employer won’t let us use social media at work either. They want us to work instead.


4 posted on 01/24/2017 3:32:06 PM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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The problem is the bureaucracy is stuffed with career Leftists who would use the social media sites to sabotage the Adminstration.


5 posted on 01/24/2017 3:32:49 PM PST by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: blam

As I pointed out in another, earlier thread on this matter: DailyKos is reporting that the Twitter account of Badlands National Park sent out three AGW-related tweets today related to CO2 and oceanic acidity levels. This has been seized upon by the lefty Twitter-verse as the last great act of defiance and they want to set up a GoFundMe for whoever gets fired.


6 posted on 01/24/2017 3:33:04 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: blam

Flood the mole’s tunnels, drive them to the surface,
remove them from the garden.


7 posted on 01/24/2017 3:33:18 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: aynrandfreak

Exactly. If you’re playing with your friends on FB or Twitter at work...you don’t have enough to do or you aren’t performing.


8 posted on 01/24/2017 3:34:45 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: blam

#WINNING


9 posted on 01/24/2017 3:35:00 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: T-Bird45; blam

The Time Magazine website is now also reporting on this and that it happened after the ban.


10 posted on 01/24/2017 3:35:50 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: blam

Heh - party’s over, you female canines.


11 posted on 01/24/2017 3:36:04 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: blam

Bad links to the source. It seems to be gone.


12 posted on 01/24/2017 3:36:46 PM PST by Myrddin
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President Trump to sign immigration papers Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 01/24/2017 3:37:09 PM PST by biggredd1
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don’t fire ‘em; send ‘em to pt. barrow, alaska for some AGW studies.


14 posted on 01/24/2017 3:37:19 PM PST by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: blam

Every business in the world has these exact same rules. They don’t want employees speaking for or about the company.


15 posted on 01/24/2017 3:38:10 PM PST by DouglasKC
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"Bad links to the source. It seems to be gone."

Trump Orders Media Blackout At Government Agencies: Bans Use Of Social Media, Bars New EPA Contracts

16 posted on 01/24/2017 3:39:38 PM PST by blam
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To: telstar12.5

Pffffft. I don’t want any of our money to go to these @ssholes.


17 posted on 01/24/2017 3:39:49 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: blam

Great; but we need to take our case against environmental extremism to the public, or those fanatics are going to be back. There are some effective conservative groups out there who could effectively use some donations.


18 posted on 01/24/2017 3:42:37 PM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: blam

It just got to be a lot less fun to be a global warming activist riding on the Government Gravy Train at the EPA.


19 posted on 01/24/2017 3:42:56 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: biggredd1

Great!!!

Where did you hear this??


20 posted on 01/24/2017 3:43:47 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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