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Wow: The Biden administration blew more than $127 million in 2021 alone on grants to “study” the spread of “misinformation” — much of which in fact was healthy skepticism of government-sponsored falsehoods.
As we’ve warned before, the entire “anti-disinformation” project boils down to progressive elites redefining their own viewpoints as objective truth — and repressing contrary views, including outright satire and even actual true facts that might lead people to the “wrong” conclusions.
The hypocrisy is particularly ripe, after Democrats such as Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Andrew Cuomo (and their allied media) spent much of 2020 casting doubt on Operation Warp Speed, which developed the COVID vaccines in record time to allow the nation to fully reopen, and even said they “wouldn’t trust any Trump vaccine.”
Only to turn around (once Biden-Harris took power and claimed moral ownership of the jabs) and make false claims about the vaccines’ effectiveness — insisting, for example, that the vaxxed couldn’t spread the bug and even denying that natural immunity (from having fought it off) was as good as getting jabbed.
Not to mention all manner of utterly baseless claims about the effectiveness of masking. Or that “Saint” Tony Fauci eventually admitted that the whole “six feet of social distancing” rule was made up out of thin air.
Yet the Bidenites arrogantly sent out their grants for academics to study the spread of “misinformation” to the contrary on all these fronts. --->READ MORE HERE
President Biden’s administration used $267 million of your money to study “misinformation” since he took office, a new report reveals — as President-elect Donald Trump vows to purge the term from the federal lexicon and make sweeping spending cuts.
The cash doled out to universities, nonprofits and companies peaked at $126 million in 2021 while US public health officials were imposing mandates they later admitted had no scientific basis, the taxpayer-transparency group OpenTheBooks said in its report Friday.
The scope of the “misinformation” grant-making emerged as Trump’s advisory Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) looks for areas to trim wasteful spending.
“When it comes to government spending, the truth is often stranger than fiction,” entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is leading the DOGE with billionaire Elon Musk, told The Post regarding the findings.
“We’re gearing up to fix the egregious waste of taxpayer dollars,” Ramaswamy said.
OpenTheBooks, which was founded by Republican budget hawks, does not account for the cost of in-house efforts by the Biden White House and various executive branch agencies to fight purportedly incorrect speech, including by pressuring social media companies to censor content.
Proponents of fighting alleged “misinformation” argue that it’s in the public’s interest to weed out false claims — with Biden personally accusing social media companies of “killing people” by platforming posts critiquing the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, as anti-“misinformation” spending surged.
Opponents of speech-policing argue it both violates the First Amendment and prevents vigorous debate and competing narratives that allow for a more full understanding of issues of public concern.
Critics also note that much of what is initially deemed “misinformation” later turns out to gain evidentiary support, such as the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab that was doing risky US-funded “gain of function” research.
Another example is the fact that mandated masks, vaccination, social distancing and economic shutdowns were largely ineffective due to evolving COVID-19 variants or had significant side-effects and unintended social consequences. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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