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The Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. 11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon's businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for "their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses" pic.twitter.com/3IGGtuHv7L
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) December 17, 2024. //
To be clear, this is the weaponizations that Democrats said Trump would bring about if he were elected. The Biden Administration has made little to no effort to hide its willingness to attack people who disagree with the left's agenda, whether they be parents pushing back against CRT or the transgender agenda or January 6 protesters.
But here we see the government actually paying corporate media millions of dollars to attack its enemies as well. This isn't just ideological alignment resulting in friendly reporting. This is a President paying a media company that touts to be an unbiased source of news to go after one of his political enemies. This discovery is going to be another nail in the coffin for the already dying reputation of the corporate media.
Reuters should have no right to call itself a news outlet, but a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party. //
I have a feeling that in a matter of weeks, we'll start uncovering some shocking truths about how far the corruption went under the Biden Admin, and that more than just Reuters benefited from a fascist government willing to pay them to damage their political opponents. //
Mongoose
3 hours ago
I'd be careful about this story. There may be less here than the headline implies. It looks like most if not all of the contracts went to Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC. They're huge, providing lots of legal, tax, and accounting support services around the world. They do WestLaw and other legal research tools, among other things. I know the DOJ pays a massive amount for access to WestLaw - it's on every Assistant US Attorney's computer. They do anti-money laundering software for business and government, that stuff is probably in every bank in the world and the Treasury Department contracts for it. DOD spends a ton for the various Thomson Reuters services and IRS spends a bunch for their tax and accounting services. CBP uses Thomson Reuters trade and import/export stuff - and pays for it.
The Reuters news wire service - Reuters Agency - is a relatively small part of Thomson Reuters and I'm not sure that the connection between the parent company and any Reuters Agency "targeting" exists. It's certainly not clear in this report.
The Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. 11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon's businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for "their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses."
Yes, the government paid (Thomson) Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. And perhaps eleven different agencies did "target" Musk's businesses. I'm not seeing the connection, however. Just because the Justice Department spent $60 million with Thomson Reuters for WestLaw etc., doesn't mean the government was paying Reuters to target Musk.
Caution is warranted.