https://www.congress.gov/congressional- ... port/840/1
CTRL+F "1287"
Subsection 1287 of the 2017 NDAA, sponsored by John McCain and signed into law on 23 Dec 2016 by Barack Obama allocates $80 mil USD for the establishment of what is essentially a Euro style internet censorship / meme police agency.
Here is a long piece written about it a week ago
https://www.thenation.com/article/us-of ... americans/
It is really a bi partisan issue, but is something that Dems or Neocons would fully embrace. Trump would not. The problem is that if it ever gets fully operational, like seemingly all other gov agencies, it will likely be co-opted to work against its original mission statements.The fear of Russian propaganda has also consistently been lumped in with the corollary fear over the rise of “fake news.” Indeed, when lobbying for the creation of the Global Engagement Center in her first speech post-election, HILLARY CLINTON decried “fake news” for putting lives “at risk” and praised bipartisan commitment to combat its spread. New sanctions on Russia, proposed in January by Senators JOHN MCCAIN and BEN CARDIN, would add an additional $100 million to the GEC’s coffers to, among other things, counter “fake news” supposedly emanating from Moscow
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/242045578-story
