LostInCalifornia on Nostr: Last week Musk flagged a contract that his team discovered between the Defense ...

Last week Musk flagged a contract that his team discovered between the Defense Department and Reuters, a well-known news agency, worth millions of dollars for services involving “large scale social deception.” Aha—here was proof that the “deep state” has been in cahoots with the dastardly media all along. The claim was so explosive that it was picked up by the reply-guy-in-chief and duly promoted on his own social media platform.

But it wasn’t the Reuters news agency that the Pentagon had partnered with. It was Thomson Reuters, a different wing of the company specializing in tech. The “large scale social deception” mentioned in the contract was a reference to foreign propaganda; Thomson Reuters had been enlisted to provide cyberdefenses to the military. The contract was signed in 2018 under—you guessed it—President Donald Trump.

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