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From Fox News: A new report by Open the Books, a nonpartisan government watchdog, has revealed that since 2021, the Biden administration has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on research related to “misinformation,” a significant rise compared to the first Trump administration.
The increase in spending raises serious concerns about civil liberties and free speech online, especially on social media platforms, where much of the Biden administrations’ efforts were directed.
Since 2021, the Biden-Harris White House has spent at least $267 million on research grants and contracts related to “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
During President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, the same federal agencies provided just $6.72 million on similar programs. That means the Biden administration increased federal spending on contracts and grants for misinformation by more than 3,800%.
“On its own, the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has spent $267 million on misinformation grants and contracts is extremely disconcerting. The federal government shouldn’t be involved, directly or indirectly, in the fact-checking industry. Nor should it engage in efforts designed to limit the speech of citizens, particularly when taxpayers are the ones footing the bill,” wrote Fox News author Justin Haskins.
Sounding the alarm, Haskins noted that the Biden administration used taxpayer funds to “develop Orwellian surveillance and propaganda strategies, create methods and tools to restrict speech online, and even to finance highly politicized reports critical of Trump.”
By the administration’s push to silence Covid-19 “misinformation,” they literally promoted dangerous public health misinformation themselves.
CLICK HERE to read more of Haskins’ op-ed about the wild spending spree by the Biden administration.
Open The Books first released their report on Nov. 22.
— OpenTheBooks (@open_the_books) November 22, 2024
$127M spent on Covid-related misinfo grants/contracts alone! @DrJBhattacharya @ScottAtlas_IT
— OpenTheBooks (@open_the_books) November 22, 2024
“The federal government spent hundreds of millions of our dollars to “fight misinformation,” only to create more misinformation. DOGE will not tolerate this nonsense,” declared Vivek Ramaswamy in a Nov. 23 social media post.
Thanks @VivekGRamaswamy for putting the spotlight on gov’t censorship! $273M spent studying/fighting “misinformation.” $127M on Covid misinfo 😷 FULL REPORT: https://t.co/QNwFpavaKq @DOGE @elonmusk @johnhart333 @mtaibbi @MatthewTyrmand @ggreenwald @shellenberger… https://t.co/Y127Y5Xv2H
— OpenTheBooks (@open_the_books) November 23, 2024
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