Bounding Into Comics Reports: With the recent shuffle occurring around the United States Agency for International Development, a deeper look into their work has revealed that the organization’s central “Disinformation Primer” listed “gaming sites” as notable sources of potential disinformation.

As covered en masse as part of the current news cycle, shortly after being sworn in for his second term on January 20th, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring that “From this day forward, the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.”

From there, the weekend of February 1st saw employees from the Department of Government Efficiency and their boss Elon Musk, who is now seemingly the sole head of the department following Vivek Ramaswamy’s sudden exit, set their sights on USAID and began gutting the entirety of its operation.

In the days since this development, more and more scrutiny has been placed on USAID’s past work history, with many individuals taking the opportunity to scour the organization’s publicly released writings in search of anything that may shed light on whether or whether not their funds were truly being mismanaged.

And it was as a result of this newfound attention that the group’s official “Disinformation Primer” was brought to public light.

Created in 2021 through a collaboration between USAID’s Joshua Machleder and Shannon Maguire and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago’s Susan Abbbott, Renée Hendley, and Luis Camacho, the primer serves to help “USAID staff and partners to understand the basics of disinformation, how it is spread, why it is spread, and how programming can help reduce its damaging impact on societies around the world.”