Allegedly they basically did that with facebook. The CIA venture arm in-q-tel[1] invested. Presumably they could do some loophole where a contractor runs a site

Allegedly they basically did that with facebook. The CIA venture arm in-q-tel[1] invested. Presumably they could do some loophole where a contractor runs a site that way but it would probably be a huge headache. Iirc there is a clause that governments cant compete directly with private enterprise, at least, the Federal gov. [1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-c...