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    16 days ago

    Well, that’s embarrassing. I guess it was the Trump era, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.

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      1216 days ago

      Hopefully it will remain the “Trump era” and not the “first Trump era”. This is my main worry right now.

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      416 days ago

      It says that it continued into the Biden era as well.

      The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

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        214 days ago

        A bit. It sounds to me like he stopped it as soon as he caught wind of it - there’s a lot of projects the US government is doing at any one time.