That project is even wilder than it sounds. According to documents obtained by @FDRLST, the multi-million dollar defense contract to study “large scale social deception” was run by a group called the 711th Human Performance Wing, an Air Force Research Laboratory project run out of an air force base in Dayton, Ohio.
What exactly did this “active social engineering” unit do with all that money? We don’t know, but we do know who managed and oversaw the social engineering and deception project: a DARPA scientist named Joshua Elliott who abandoned his academic field of theoretical particle physics to focus on global warming and climate change. According to the Federation for American Scientists, Elliott managed $600 million of DARPA projects during his 6-year tenure at the secretive military research agency.
Other entities that received funding via the same “active social engineering” contract in addition to Thomson Reuters include the Canadian version of GSA, Raytheon, the University of Southern California, government consultancies Mitre Corporation and SRI International, and HRL Laboratories, a joint venture of Boeing and General Motors.