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Reuters paid $9 million for “Social Engineering” by US government (twitter.com)
posted 1 year ago by Ahaus667 1 year ago by Ahaus667 +126 / -0
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– SoctaticMethod1 27 points 1 year ago +27 / -0

It's funny because they attacked Elon before this and he got the receipts after to prove they're bought and paid for.

Every person squealing at DOGE had their mouths at the trough it looks like..

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– LowEnergyFaggot 19 points 1 year ago +19 / -0

They need to come completely clean about what they were paid to do. Full cooperation or permanent loss of license.

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– AnAmishWithATude 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

License? They're not a TV channel.

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– LowEnergyFaggot 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Media companies, including news websites and local newspapers, generally need licenses to operate.

I'm a retard, but I seriously doubt that Reuters doesn't require some sort of licensing to operate legally.

*I will concede that I have no idea how things actually work, however, I can't imagine there is no legal recourse to them manufacturing fake news for the government.

Thank you for pulling my head out. Can't find anything to support the idea that they need any licensing other that copywrite licensing from other outlets for reprinted articles

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– GamingTheSystem-01 8 points 1 year ago +8 / -0

Are you brittish?

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– BeefyBelisarius 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Do they publish anything themselves? I was under the impression Reuters mostly acted as a source for every other media company.

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– LowEnergyFaggot 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Yeah, they do need licensing to re-print stories thar aren't their own, but that permission comes from the creator of the content they want to reprint.

I can't find any type of licensing that could be revoked by government for them being weasles. I'm probably very confused about how things actually work

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– RaisingPhoenix 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

This is correct. I think he might be confusing media licensing for TV or radio.

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– current_horror 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

He’s confused as to why journalism is treated like a real profession when there are no certifications, licenses, or qualifications - of any kind whatsoever - required. It’s a fake job that deserves no respect or special privileges of any kind.

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– LibertyPrimeWasRight 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

It’s not like the media systems that do require licensing are any better. They’re often worse. Your best shot is usually finding several individual curators, commentators, and journalists that you like and paying attention to them/checking them against each other. And I’d imagine most of the halfway decent guys aren’t licensed in any way, nor are they typically the product of journalism schools.

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– SophiesBoyfriend 11 points 1 year ago +11 / -0

There should be harsher punishments for undermining the US constitution.

Currently :

“oh damn. I got caught. Let me hide for 4 years until the democrats are in office again”

Ideally :

Similar punishment as for treason

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– Gizortnik 11 points 1 year ago +11 / -0

The funny part is that I feel having it explicitly labeled like this is standard for military mentality.

"What are we purchasing?"

"A deception campaign."

"Okay fine, write that down in the log."

"Sir, are you sure you want us to call it that? Shouldn't we call it, like, happy-fun-time-morale-building-operation or something?"

"ABSOLUTELY NOT. First, I'll forget what it is if we do that. Second, if they want me to buy a fucking deception campaign, then we're buying a deception campaign. I am NOT going to get my dick in a vice because 'ooohhh you bought a deception program, not a deception campaign, we're not paying for it.' "

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– GamingTheSystem-01 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

Yeah also how it immediately births two acronyms, it's gotta be legit.

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– MargarineMongoose 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

You have no idea how bad the problem is unless you've operated from within the federal sector. I swear it's a goddamn fetish.

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– WhitePhoenix 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Makes you wonder if some of these military guys ever created a program that became an acronym spelling out FAGGOT.

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– MargarineMongoose 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

I'm sure some grunts somewhere have done this because it was funny.

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– Gizortnik 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

"We only did this for the acronym"

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– SuurSuomi39_II 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

That's what confused me too, you'd expect it to be called something coded, nope, even has an abbreviation for it ha.

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– MartinRigggs 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Legal thanks to the Smith Mundt Modernization Act….we were funding our own brainwashing during COVID lol. I remember wondering how much we were paying media to propagandize ourselves back then, thinking it had to be in the billions of dollars since you literally couldn’t go anywhere without seeing covid related propaganda, even when driving on the damn highway you’d see construction signs blasting Covid related messaging.

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– ItLivesInTheWind 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

I always figured that it was WEF associates paying Reuters to propagate this shit through the West. Didn't think it was the USA.

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– Vivs3rdSock 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

figured that it was WEF

Didn't think it was the USA

Considering the previous admin it's the same picture.

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– realerfunction 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

i wonder how many of ze cabinet was penetrated

buttstuff is an obvious wef golem, but who else?

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– Erithal 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Easier to list who wasn't. That'd be a shorter list.

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– KekistanPM 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Seems like a drop in the bucket...the government price tag for social engineering over our lifetimes is probably over $1T.

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