This is what you're talking about right here, and explains why our news went to shite in 2013:
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, Public Law 80-402, 62 Stat. 6, limited/prohibited the government from propagandizing its own citizens through controlling the narrative.
This law was repealed/modified with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, 112TH Congress 2D Session H. R. 5736, This changed the Smith-Mundt Act by taking away the the government’s limit and prohibition of propagandizing its own citizens by controlling the narrative..
The bill was passed by Congress, rolled into the NDAA, and signed into law by Obama in 2013.
Here's the response I got 8 years ago when I told people I knew about all these "Conspiracy Theories";
"Well, if that were true, it would have been on the news."
This is what you're talking about right here, and explains why our news went to shite in 2013:
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, Public Law 80-402, 62 Stat. 6, limited/prohibited the government from propagandizing its own citizens through controlling the narrative.
This law was repealed/modified with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, 112TH Congress 2D Session H. R. 5736, This changed the Smith-Mundt Act by taking away the the government’s limit and prohibition of propagandizing its own citizens by controlling the narrative..
The bill was passed by Congress, rolled into the NDAA, and signed into law by Obama in 2013.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736
This made it legal for the government to disseminate propaganda at home and abroad.
Thanks, elpreZer0!