A new investigation found that the Department of Homeland Security paid an activist group $700,000 to create propaganda that criticized conservatives under the guise of “media literacy.”
The University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab and a related activist group, Media Literacy Now, were at the center of this government-funded campaign, aiming to push for increased censorship.
The funding was used to manipulate the public and policymakers, with the program paying youth to create government-sanctioned messages and training teachers to root out “misinformation.”
The program aimed to make “media literacy” training mandatory for all American children, promoting liberal views while opposing a Texas bill that included the 1619 Project as an example of misinformation.
“Propaganda can also be used for socially beneficial purposes. Indeed, because the public has long been recognized as being suggestible, the United States has long made use of beneficial propaganda during WWI, WWII, and the Cold War,” the grant application read.
“The Biden administration is able to get something quite special with its $700,000 TVTP grant,” the MRC wrote. “Harnessing the Media Literacy Now ‘network’ and, ultimately, paying children to advocate for ‘media literacy’ mandates ensnares the whole of the American public school system in its agenda.”
“With just two grants — first from the State Department, and now from the DHS — the Biden administration has been able to artificially create a perpetual ‘[p]ublic demand for media literacy in public education,’ supercharging a censorship industry devoted to an inherently anti-American philosophy hidden beneath the asinine monicker of ‘media literacy,’” it wrote.
“We are all living in a darker, scarier, angrier, less hopeful country thanks to Mr. Trump’s influence. Are we on the verge of civil war?” one post read, stating that Trump “was able to crawl into the safety of First Amendment protections.”
“It won’t be easy, but we really have to reduce Trump’s influence,” it added.
“Content moderation decisions of digital platforms actually do not violate ordinary people’s constitutionally guaranteed speech rights. That’s because private social media companies are not bound by the First Amendment,” another wrote, stating that “the political right enjoys higher amplification compared to the political left.”
“We have become so focused on individual rights, we have forgotten about the collective good,” Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore said.
“Somebody who has access to guns or has anti-government theories or has conspiracy theories, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re going to mobilize to violence, but it does mean in the sense of wanting to do interventions. If you’re causing concerns among your friends and family, to have a way of reporting or maybe getting someone the help that they desperately need,” DHS agent Robert Mahoney said.
“You know, if one looks at the anti-immigration movement today, it is astounding the things that are said by mainstream people. You know, we have national politicians right now walking around this country talking about how illegal aliens are, quote ‘coming here to kill me, and kill you, and kill our families,’” a SPLC official stated.
The investigation raises concerns about the use of federal funds to promote specific political agendas and influence public opinion.
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