I just looked this up myself. It was proposed as part of last year's COMPETES act: https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-for-negative-new

I just looked this up myself. It was proposed as part of last year's COMPETES act: https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-for-negative-news-coverage-of-china/ https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-... I only found articles on this from when the act was still moving through congress. But the act was passed, so I assume this part did as well. It feels nefarious to me how acts and budgets in the US can bundle things like this.