The below graphs are based on 867 awards made between 2016-2024, out of nearly 1,100 that we reviewed from 2010 to the present day. You can review our process and methodology here. You can see all the graphs from the last post, this post, and a few more here.
When it comes to MDM funding, the vast majority of the awards went to US-based initiatives. The graph below includes a contract totaling nearly $1 billion to military contractor Peraton, but even without it, US recipients received around $318 million, dwarfing the next country, Kazakhstan, at $20 million. Out of the nearly $1.5 billion spent across the 867 awards, around $187 million left the US from a roughly $6.7 trillion annual federal budget.
The “US taxpayers are wasting money on foreigners” narrative isn’t the story here, at least not in the mis/disinformation space.
You betcha, the money wasn’t wasted on foreigners! It was used in the good ole USA to counter all of that nasty old Mal/Mis/Disinformation that we couldn’t have polluting the political sphere in this country, contrary to whatever the first amendment had to say about this policy. Aren’t you glad that we have had OUR money spent this way for US?