One Republican senator claimed that President Joe Biden should be crowned the Grinch for this Christmas season for his attempt to use the government as a weapon to attack and censor the American public for taking part in “misinformation” by daring to question the government.
“You better watch out! President Biden is making a list and checking it twice. Going to find out who is being naughty…exercising their constitutional rights,” expressed Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) in a statement released on Tuesday.
Ernst called on the National Science Foundation of the Biden administration to take away funding for a large $5 million grant to a group titled Hacks/Hackers to create software that would morph the American citizen into online bots. The tool will push them to put tweets and Facebook posts from their friends into the system in order to be told whether or not the statements counted as “harmful” or “misinformation.” If it labels the comments as such, it will create and spit out responses utilizing the openly official positions of well-known groups such as the World Heal Organization, and push them to copy-and-paste them as replies to their friends’ posts as if they were their own words.
To go along with the new software, titled the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT), Hacks/Hackers also brought on people to work on a project to assist in determining which of the various news outlets can be labeled what they deem “credible” when it comes to information about vaccine information and which are not. The groups that do not manage to get the seal of approval will not have the ability to be cited on Wikipedia.
“To no one’s surprise, liberal outlets, like The New York Times, made Hack/Hackers’ nice list for being ‘reliable.’ The naughty list of ‘unreliable’ or ‘conspiracy’ sources predictably includes conservative-leaning media, like The Daily Wire, which coincidentally exposed this new Washington enemies list!” stated Ernst.
“I am giving my December 2022 Squeal Award to ‘the minister of misinformation’ himself, President Biden, for promoting blatant falsehoods while his administration is steering tax dollars into these Soviet-style propaganda tactics that target citizens and media who dare question the administration’s narrative,” explained Ernst. She issued an award on a monthly basis on an example of pork-like or abusive government spending.
In an attempt to “pull the plug on this taxpayer-funded troll service,” she reached out to Sethuraman Panchanathan, the National Science Foundation’s director, that “We really do not need a return to the dark days when some in Washington maintained an ‘enemies lists’ of fellow citizens and journalists with opposing viewpoints. Instead, the NSF would much better serve taxpayers by supporting our nation’s bright young minds with initiatives to improve math and science education rather than these efforts to troll taxpayers online.”
She stated that the World Health Organization, which is heavily intertwined with the ARTT project and has been marked as the creators as the north star of truth, has repeatedly been incorrect.
“Bending to China’s propaganda machine, a WHO representatives not only announced it was ‘extremely unlikely’ that COVID-19 might have been leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was conducting dangerous studies on coronaviruses in the very city where the pandemic began, but that a lab leak ‘isn’t a hypothesis we suggest implies further study.’ Does NSF believe these are credible statements based on reliable facts and sound scientific evidence?” Ernst explained to the director.
“WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has gone as far as saying, ‘We appreciate the seriousness with which China is taking this outbreak, especially the commitment from top leadership, and the transparency they have demonstrated,’” she stated.
“It is very disappointing that taxpayer dollars would be spent on this project when our nation is facing a dire shortage of STEM teachers who are vital to inspiring others to pursue careers in the sciences,” she went on.
