As someone else linked above, it is also very interesting that 2013, the year this happened, was the same year that the government repealed the propaganda ban,

As someone else linked above, it is also very interesting that 2013, the year this happened, was the same year that the government repealed the propaganda ban, allowing the CIA to once again legally allowed to secretly spread propaganda via news media organizations https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...