The Pentagon Spent $540 Million on Fake Terrorist Videos?

While we were able to confirm that Bell Pottinger was awarded millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts, we have not yet been able to independently verify that $540 million went toward psychological operations under JPOTF. We can say it is a mischaracterization of TBIJ’s reporting to claim that “over half a billion in taxpayer dollars to a British PR firm to fabricate terrorist propaganda,”