Inside the $1.5 Billion US Censorship-Industrial Complex: How MDM Grants Built a Domestic and Global Narrative Control Network

Taxpayer-funded truth squads have quietly stitched together a digital control grid where policy meets perception management.

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Somewhere between the Pentagon’s last drone drop and the CDC’s latest Instagram flu warning, a quieter war has been raging. Not the kind with soldiers, or even hackers.

No, this one is being waged by grant writers, media consultants, and think tank interns with security clearances. The battlefield? Your news feed. The ammo? Federal grants. And the enemy? A three-headed acronym called MDM: misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, a bureaucratic spell conjured to turn taxpayer dollars into a censorship infrastructure so vast it would make any Cold War propagandist blush.

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