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Obama Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” Into Law
Web Publication: Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden
1984
When I saw the title of this piece by Tyler Durden, it occurred to me that this is the most Orwellian law that I’ve ever heard of from our government. So yes, this is a real bill and since we’re all very concerned about fake news, I made sure just to make sure so here is a link to some information on the bill by congress.gov. You’re welcome! As Durden describes it, we may now have a Ministry of Truth. Thoughtful folks may politely agree or disagree about the brief analysis provided by the article but you have to admit this is a weird time to write a bill that has a distinct McCarthy-ist zing to it, especially by a country that’s supposedly the most technologically advanced. You don’t have to be totally paranoid to understand that the real target may be internal, especially when the .gov resource mentions, “the government shall…assert fact-based strategic narrative”. What is this, February 9, 1950? Talk about red-baiting: Fake news bad. Russia make fake news. Russia try to hurt us. Conservatives post news we don’t like. Therefore conservatives spread fake news. Therefore conservatives work for Russia. So now we have a bill that the government will target anyone they want to conflate into a foreign threat, and its already signed into law.