The reason the U.S. government is investing huge money in social media (2014)

Washington Examiner ^ | 25 Jun 14 | Kelly Cohen

[Erik Latranyi]

The federal government is looking to pay someone as much as $111,000 a year to do outreach and social media work.

In Uganda.Where 12 percent of the population uses the Internet occasionally or owns a smartphone.

The job posting is just one example of how social media's rise in popularity is being accompanied by a rise in federal spending on it.

Uncle Sam is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to pay for social media-related services and to fund grants for research into the habits of the Twittersphere and other online worlds.

Exactly how much the federal government spends on social media is not clear. The Congressional Research Service made waves when it found the government spent at least $945 million on advertising and public communications, including social media, four years ago.

But America is increasingly tweeting, Facebooking and Instagramming. Nearly three Americans out of every four who are online use social networking sites, Pew Research reported last year. And about one American out of every seven is on Twitter, with that proportion projected to grow to one American out of five by 2018.

Even if a comprehensive total isn't possible to determine, a review of federal contracts and grants and stories in media reports across the country give some insight into how much the government is spending on social media --such as the $630,000 the State Department spent buying Facebook "likes" last year, news the Washington Examiner broke.

For instance, the National Science Foundation gave a $480,000 grant last year to fund "TwitterHealth," an application developed by a team at the University of Rochester to use Twitter algorithms to track flu outbreaks, according to the Democrat and Chronicle.

[Erik Latranyi]

Under Obama, the takeover of social media began by the Deep State.

[Erik Latranyi]

Notice this line?

For instance, the National Science Foundation gave a $480,000 grant last year to fund "TwitterHealth," an application developed by a team at the University of Rochester to use Twitter algorithms to track flu outbreaks, according to the Democrat and Chronicle.

[Salman]

Outsourcing the crushing of freedom to private industry, as an end run around the Bill of Rights.

[Erik Latranyi]

Obama’s fundamental transformation.....

[TigerClaws]

Twitter was paid 3.5 million to swing an election.

They were ideologically inclined to do so without the payments.

That’s just ONE COMPANY.

What other social media companies and search engine companies were paid to alter the ‘free and fair’ election?

I remember a decade or more ago searching for stories about, say, Obama’s birth certificate. The first 2 or 3 pages (most don’t go past page 1, btw) were all ‘debunking’ ‘conspiracy theories’ and how great Obama was.

Control THE NARRATIVE.

That’s all Dems do because they have nothing but their lying fake narrative. They just sell it over and over.

They point out China is doing it to us on TikTok but real danger is our own government controlling the American populace.

[GOPJ]

Fascist governments encouraged the pursuit of private profit and offered many benefits to large businesses, but they demanded in return that all economic activity should serve the national interest. - Google

[Navy Patriot]

The reason the U.S. government is investing huge money in social media

They're really interested in your children, and not in a good way.

[Vaduz]

Government + Money + Power = Control