DOGE and the Reuters Scandal

Timothy Birdnow

Why was Reuters given $9 million to study "study large-scale social deception” by the Pentagram, er, Pentagon in the first place?

While Trump was President then it was the duplicitous James "Mad-dog" Mattis who was running the DOD, the same Mattis who publicly called Trump a "threat to the Constitution" and otherwise publicly smeared his former boss, who fired him, and with good cause.

Now we see what Mattis was doing behind the scenes.

Elon Musk posted on X:

I know; the article argues it was money given to Thompson Reuters and not ReutersNews Service. From the Mediaite article:


This is just a fancy way to make an end-run around things. The fact remains that the Military was handing out money it had no business handing out. And what is "Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED), Large Scale Social Deception (LSD).”?

ASED is about developing technology to "disrupt" what DARPA deems misinformation and social disruption. So what was happening back in 2018? We were seeing something very much like this being employed against people who questioned the Covid protocols and vaccines on social media.

Why name it Large Scale Social Deception (LSD) if you weren't studying - and by extension finding ways to both block and deploy - social deception?

Even the acronym should give us pause - LSD. This brings to mind the social experiments with the CIA and the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, made legendary by Timothy Leary and foisted on a generation of young Americans by the Central Intelligence Agency.

MK Ultra was a project aimed at mind control run by the CIA and it produced some terrible fruit, such as the Unibomber and the brutal Irish gangster Whitey Bulger.

So just the fact of this acronym suggests more than just stopping cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns from foreign entities.

So this may well be worse than giving money to Reuters news service; it was about propaganda and brainwashing of Americans.

Oh, and Elong Musk is not stupid; he knows full well what he's talking about. This article presupposes he is some ignorant clod, an ignorant clod who built spacecraft capable of doing things NASA can't get their equipment to do.

I would add that the Thomson corporation acquired Reuters news service in 2008, so while these are different divisions they are the same company. If you give money to one branch you give it to the corporation itself.

To make the claim it is entirely seperate is dishonest. This is like the difference between George Soros' Tides Foundation and The Open Society; both are tools of Soros and his revolution, just with different names to launder money.

CEO of Thomson Reuters Special Services put out this little load of diaper padding:


"Advancing justice"? He gives himself away here. Advancing justice isn't what anyone hires them to do.

Thomson Reuters commercial agreements may not, perhaps, have any influence over ReutersNews editorial coverage, but it damned well may have influence over Reuter's so-called news covereage. Better to say Reuters News coverage has plenty of influence over TR.

How do you "advance justice" through cyber security? That'swhat the news branch is for.

Of course the media is going to pound this argument into the dust and perhaps a lot of people will buy it. But this contract should never have been issued in the first place. Government has no business researching how to manipulate public opinion.

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