President Trump criticized Reuters over a Pentagon contract awarded for studying social deception, ordering the news agency to return $9 million cited in a new Department of Government Efficiency report. Although initially framed by Trump and Elon Musk as a scheme to mislead the public, a closer inspection revealed the contract was actually for cybersecurity research, awarded in 2018 when Trump was in office. This development fueled further conspiracy theories despite factual clarifications about the contract's purpose and nature.
Musk's implication was more controversial, that Reuters, a respected global news agency, was somehow running disinformation campaigns on behalf of the Pentagon.
The contract in question, issued in 2018 during the first Trump administration, was actually awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services for cybersecurity research.
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