USAID Paid Politico to Write Hit Pieces on Gamergate
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They paid Politico and Politico wrote articles on Gamergate, but that doesn't mean they paid Politico to write articles on Gamergate.
They may have been paying them to write articles on Syria or Tulsi or whatever.
I mean they probably did pay them for Gamergate articles, but this isn't evidence of it.
I doubt there were any direct orders.
The smart way to do this is to find people who already agree with you anyway and then just 'support' them to write the things they would write anyway, just more and to a wider audience. You won't need to explicitly tell them to do anything, so there won't be any orders for anyone to find later. The recipients of your largesse will be grateful for your funding, rather than consider themselves sellouts or employees. And if ever you don't agree anymore, you can just pull the funding again.
"Write agitprop that attacks anything that goes against the mainstream narrative that the media is corrupt and incestuous."
Look man, the timing couldn't be any more coincidental. At that point you call that serendipity - e.g. there's SOMETHING happening there that's a bit more nefarious than it being a "coincidence".
Money is fungible, but I'm inclined to agree. This is jumping at shadows or trying to force a narrative for which there is not yet evidence.