• Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      It says that it continued into the Biden era as well.

      The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        5 months ago

        A bit. It sounds to me like he stopped it as soon as he caught wind of it - there’s a lot of projects the US government is doing at any one time.

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      5 months ago

      Hopefully it will remain the “Trump era” and not the “first Trump era”. This is my main worry right now.