
“What they don’t see won’t hurt us.”
Says the headline, the Dept. of Defense funds “active social engineering defines large-scale social deception” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/shocking-revelation-thomson-reuters-far-left-propaganda-arm/).
Thomson-Reuters–which may or may not be an arm of the Reuters news agency–has a scheme of “identifying, disrupting, and investigating social engineering attacks.” What does that mean? It means to “exploit human psychology and trust, often bypassing technical security measures [CLICK LINK AND SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW CHART]. “Lies, half-truths, and omissions” are all on the table.
Do we understand this? Is this how we want our government to use the money it collects from us in taxes? Whom is to be deceived? (Hint: us.) Elon Musk says it’s not for our good (ya think?).
As Sun Tzu once said, all warfare entails deception. It’s okay for us to deceive our enemies. But here were are also talking about the American government systematically deceiving the American people. Thomson-Reuters landed a $9 million contract from the Dept. of Defense in 2018. They’ve been playing with it ever since.
