For a "little" provision inside the the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act ($611 Billion Dollars BTW), the "Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act" aka The Ministry of Truth.
In essence this provision makes the government the sole clearing house and ultimate decider on what is or isn't real news (it also consistently references "enemies" which includes China and Russia. Weird, 8 years of a so called Noble Peace prize winning president and China and Russia are enemies).
The bottom line is it allows the the United States government to propagandize its own people by setting itself up as the, as I said, the "real news" clearinghouse.
Most people, including many on here (and including the hyper paranoid and revitalized cold warriors in the proglib ranks who now blame Russia for everything. In one of the weirdest twists in US political history: McCarthyism Redux) will point to any news story not officially blessed by the government or disseminated through the chosen outlets, as being "fake" (which again is weird because I always viewed most Lib's as the original "question the man" types and now they're leading the charge, along with some dumb pubs for a de facto multichannel propaganda ministry of truth).
This is targeted at foreign media, and setting the extreme paranoia about entities like RT (which is weird since that paranoia is lead by the new McCarthyite's aka ProgLibs) aside, the whole concept is ominous. Particularly since the entities of "record" in the US rarely tell the whole story these days and many are so far in the tank on one side or the other they've lost credibility and most have been caught disseminating fake news or reshaping the meme to fit their agenda. This latest election cycle proved this over and over.
Sad
