Taxpayer Funded Censorship: How Government is Using Your Tax Dollars to Silence Your Voice. $127M was spent just studying and countering Covid-related speech. By OpenTheBooks (11/22/24)

Your Tax Dollars at Work — not FOR you, but AGAINST you!

Misinformation is information that is false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time. ~Department of Health and Human Services website

Open the Books (OTB) provides a litany of examples in which the government during both the Trump and Biden administrations — but especially during Biden — spent obscene amounts of taxpayer money to control the thoughts and speech of We the People, deeming anything that disagreed with government consensus as “misinformation.”

• $273 million has been awarded for grant proposals containing the term “misinformation” since FY2017—with an explosion during the Covid era.

• $267 million was for grants that began in 2021 or later.

Key Topics:

• BACKGROUND

• BY THE NUMBERS

• WHAT IS MISINFORMATION, ANYWAY?

• BACK TO THE START: MISINFO SPENDING UNDER TRUMP

• NEXT STEPS: CASH TO FIGHT COVID MISINFO

• ON-THE-GROUND ADVOCACY

• MISINFORMATION STUDIES

• OTHER GRANT EXAMPLES

  • $200,000 to Slander a Political Opponent

• WILL THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES THEMSELVES SPREAD MISINFORMATION?

• MISINFORMATION CONTRACT SPENDING

• CONCLUSION

• FURTHER READING

Edited slightly from the conclusion…

In October 2024, the House Committee on Energy & Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations outlined nearly $1 billion in spending on a vaccine promotional campaign… “The Campaign and the Biden Harris administration’s response to the pandemic resulted in a collapse of the public’s trust in public health messaging.”

It appears the administration most concerned with “misinformation” itself trafficked in misinformation: on masks, on risks to children, on social distancing, and on the need to vaccinate even infants.

The incoming Trump administration must end the government’s involvement in managing so-called misinformation, and Congress must keep the purse strings closed on this spending.

Otherwise, taxpayers remain at risk of underwriting their own censorship.

ED NOTE
This article is for all the disgruntled people on all sides of the aisle who wonder why their tax dollars aren’t working for them and their brains have been thoroughly washed. 

(Well, some won’t wonder because their brains are thoroughly washed, but others will be hopping mad to know how much of their money was spent on the water and laundry soap.)