{"id":50134,"date":"2016-12-27T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=50134"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T00:20:59","slug":"obama-quietly-signs-the-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=50134","title":{"rendered":"Obama Quietly Signs The &#8220;Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act&#8221; Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-24\/obama-signs-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-law\">ZeroHedge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Long before the &#8220;fake news&#8221; meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to \u201cestablish a Center for Information Analysis and Response,\u201d which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and \u2014 in true dystopic manner \u2014 \u2018develop and disseminate\u2019 \u201cfact-based narratives\u201d to counter effrontery propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>In short, long before &#8220;fake news&#8221; became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Credit: Kurt<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: ZeroHedge: Long before the &#8220;fake news&#8221; meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to \u201cestablish a Center for Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictatorship","category-perception-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50135,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50134\/revisions\/50135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}