Posted on 09/19/2023 6:49:32 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Buried within spending provisions that passed in 2022 is a little-known program that has come to light and is raising eyebrows.
According to reports, journalists who get "harassed" online can seek taxpayer-funded counseling and other services as part of a program that seeks to fight "misinformation." No, I'm not making that up. Your hard-earned tax dollars are going to soothe the souls of aggrieved journalists who get trolled online so they can return to doing the regime's bidding.
Advertisement The Biden administration has approved $5.7 million in grant funding to George Washington University to create a program that will provide psychological care to journalists who believe they are the targets of “misinformation-driven harassment campaigns.”
The program, called Expert Voices Together, is described in the government grant database as “a socio-technical system that provides real-time support to experts experiencing online harassment.” The project’s goal is to provide journalists, and eventually other “experts,” with means of “monitoring and reporting” alleged abuse, as well as “personalized assistance with digital safety” and access to “mental health care specialists” as a form of “trauma-informed care.”
Expert Voices Together, the program in question, has received millions of dollars in grant funding from the Biden administration. It is completely Orwellian in nature. The federal government has no role in "monitoring and reporting" online "harassment" of journalists, which is just another way of saying people are using their free speech rights to push back on said journalists.
Every intrepid muckraker needs his thafe thpathe.
Let’s just get playpens & binkies for them.
Bump
But they are not government paid shills.
Nosirree.
Brainwashing?
Sap-happy spender Biden has approved $5.7 million in tax funding to George Washington U to
(get this) “create a program to provide psychological care to journos” whining about being
“targets of harassment campaigns.”
Sap-happy spender Biden has approved $5.7 million in tax funding to George Washington U to
(get this) create a program “to provide psychological care to journos” whining about being
“targets of harassment campaigns.”
Liz, this is the most insane waste of money I’ve ever heard of.
But it’s extremely useful for us to use as a weapon of ridicule against the Fake News.
Good thinking.......hoist them on their own petard.
I can fix their problem with a dozen Tequila shots, a *SMACK* upside of the empty head with a mini baseball bat and send them off to bed without dinner.
So about $40 each.
I wonder what it takes to be an “expert”. Is it a self declaration? Hint, hint.
What is harassment? Is it self-determined? Hint, hint.
What is misinformation? Is there a lookback period to determine what was true and what was false? Hint. hint.
It’s time to suck the money out of this program. My share will go to the Trump 2024 campaign.
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You know who went to GWU but didn't finish and who needs both the job and the counseling?
This simp right here...
Most journalists are the cause of misinformation counseling won’t cure stupidity or the desire to kiss ass.
I like it.
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