If you think the media got really weird around 2012, you’re right. Congress neutralized 2 previous acts: the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 & Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987. They had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government’s misinformation campaigns.1/
So, yes, the media is lying to you, and it’s “legal” now. Why? Because they’re acting on behalf of the govt.

Read that twice. This govt. This administration.

Why? Hegelian dialectic. Divide and conquer. Distract and destroy.

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Unsurprisingly, after the Bill passed there is no more commentary on it from the MSM. None.
This thread is an example of how it works: https://twitter.com/JonahofNinevah/status/1272745604888825856?s=20
https://twitter.com/jonahofninevah/status/1264310475271163905?s=21
What I failed to add to this thread is that The Act also makes it “legal” for the govt to lie, and to install intelligence operatives in the media, social media (fake accounts to push narratives), and made the QAnon psyop legal. Of course, they had time to prepare...
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