The Alarmist Disinformation Campaign of Elon Musk

How Trump, Elon and DOGE are Mucking Up the Information Waters

What DOGE lacks in not uncovering any actual "waste, fraud, or abuse" yet, they make up for in being complete bumbling idiots who are barely literate.

Here’s a quick example of why Elon and his pack of flying monkeys at DOGE aren't quite the savvy tech geniuses playing 4D chess MAGA seems to think. They're more like a bunch of idiots playing checkers with rocks, bottle caps, and some saltine crackers the high schoolers keep nibbling on.

Here's how the idiocy began:

1. A wanna-be political influencer named Mario Nawfal went over to USASpending.gov and uncovered what he THOUGHT was a $9M contract between the Department of Defense (DOD) and Reuters (the news outlet) for a nefarious psy-op.

Nawfal then tweeted out to his 44 million followers:

DOGE investigations reveal mysterious Defense Department payments to Reuters for "large scale social deception" project between 2018-2022.

2. Elon Musk sees Nawfal's tweet, reads it, doesn't bother to double check the story about what HIS OWN department is doing, and shares it to his 218 million followers with the comment:

Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US governemtn for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.

3. Donald Trump reads Elon's tweet, and "truths" it out to his [sad] 9 million followers on Truth* Social:

Looks like Radical Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study “large scale social deception.” GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!

Why this is 9 Levels Beyond Idiotic

If you go to the USASpending.gov website (which Nawfal actually provides a screenshot of), you can plainly see the contract in question is between the DOD and "Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC."

REUTERS is a news outlet.

THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES is a cyber security firm

Other than having the name "Reuters" in common, the two businesses have no relation to each other.

Okay, Shane, but then why did the DOD give THOMSON REUTERS a $9M contract for some “large scale social deception?!?” Why is our DOD paying ANYONE—even if they're not a media outlet—to engage in “large scale social deception?”

THEY DIDN'T!

Look at the entire line item Mario Nawfal took a screenshot of:

ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)

Thomson Reuters is a cyber security firm that was contracted by the DOD to provide cyber defense against "large scale social deception."

This contract DOGE "uncovered" doesn't involve, in any way, the media outlet they're naming. They got confused because 2 different companies have the same name. And the actual contract they're freaking out about does the exact opposite of what they're claiming it does.

Aren't we all so lucky to have DOGE uncovering all this "waste, fraud, and abuse?"