When American Companies Sell Our Minds The Hidden National

When American Companies Sell Our Minds: The Hidden National Security Threat

Vincent Cordova 9-5-2025

In a democracy, truth is supposed to be the foundation of public debate. Citizens rely on facts to make decisions, to vote, to challenge leaders, and to hold institutions accountable. Yet what happens when truth is displaced — not by a foreign adversary hacking into our systems, but by our own American companies selling space in our minds to the highest bidder?

That is exactly what happens when U.S. tech giants like Google and YouTube accept tens of millions of dollars from a foreign government to spread state-sponsored propaganda. Recently, Israel’s government was reported to have signed a $45 million deal with Google and YouTube to flood global audiences with content designed not to inform, but to persuade, distort, and erase realities on the ground.

Propaganda Is Not Diplomacy — It’s Colonization of the Mind

Let’s be clear: propaganda is not the same as diplomacy. Diplomacy is governments speaking with each other. Propaganda is governments speaking through us , hijacking our platforms, our feeds, and even our subconscious, in order to colonize the way we think.

It doesn’t matter whether the message comes from an adversary like Russia or a long-standing ally like Israel — the mechanism is the same. A foreign power buys influence, shapes the conversation, and undermines the sovereignty of the American people to decide for themselves based on facts.

The Constitutional Line: Foreign Governments Have No Right to Our Freedoms

The First Amendment is one of America’s most sacred protections — the guarantee of free speech. But that protection was written for the people , not for foreign states.

- Foreign governments do not have constitutional standing under the First Amendment. They are not “the people.” They are not protected actors in our democracy.

- When they pay to flood our platforms with messaging, they are not exercising “free speech.” They are conducting an influence operation.

- Accepting these campaigns under the false banner of “free expression” is a distortion of our Constitution itself — and an insult to the very freedoms generations of Americans have fought to protect.

Free speech belongs to citizens, residents, communities, and individuals. It does not belong to foreign powers seeking to manipulate the American people for their agenda.

A National Security Issue

Some will say, “It’s just ads.” But propaganda is more than messaging — it is a form of psychological warfare . When allowed on U.S. soil through American platforms, it becomes a national security issue .

- Foreign psy-ops inside our borders: Governments don’t need to send troops or weapons when they can buy narrative dominance on our screens.

- Erosion of public trust: Once people learn corporations are profiting off propaganda, they stop trusting media, government, and even each other. Distrust divides us, and division is a security vulnerability.

- Precedent for anyone, anywhere: If one government can buy its way into our national conversation, then so can all others. America becomes an open marketplace for manipulation.

The only ones who benefit are foreign governments advancing their agendas and U.S. corporations pocketing profits. The American people — the very backbone of democracy — gain nothing. In fact, we lose our ability to see clearly, debate honestly, and decide freely.

The Danger Is the Same — Adversary or Ally

It is dangerous to think this issue only matters when the propaganda comes from an adversary. The truth is simpler: propaganda is propaganda, no matter the source.

- When Russia funds disinformation campaigns, we recognize it as hostile.

- When China spreads narratives through TikTok, we call it influence operations.

- But when Israel or another ally pays U.S. companies for the same outcome, it gets labeled as “advertising.”

The effect is no different. It is still a foreign agenda colonizing American minds.

What Must Be Done

- Ban Foreign Propaganda Buys

American companies must be prohibited from selling ad space for state-sponsored propaganda campaigns, regardless of the country involved.

- Mandatory Transparency

If any government communication runs on a U.S. platform, it must be labeled: “This content is funded by the Government of [X].” No exceptions.

- Public Oversight

Tech giants cannot regulate themselves. We need independent citizen oversight boards to audit foreign ad buys and expose manipulation.

- Reframe Propaganda as a Security Threat

Congress and the American people must recognize propaganda for what it is: a weapon of influence that undermines national security, corrodes democracy, and exploits our freedoms.

The Bigger Picture

This fight isn’t just about one deal, one company, or one government. It’s about the larger principle: Do we, the American people, own our own minds, or do corporations and foreign states?

When U.S. companies take foreign money to decide what we see, hear, and think, they are not serving the people. They are serving power. And a democracy that allows its citizens’ minds to be colonized by propaganda is not a democracy at all.

It’s time to confront these corporations directly and demand: truth over profit, sovereignty over manipulation, democracy over propaganda.

Associated blogs

- When American Companies Sell Our Minds: The Hidden National Security Threat

- Why Foreign Propaganda Targets Americans — and What They’re Preparing Us For

- Tyranny in Disguise: When U.S. Companies and Government Sell Us to Foreign Powers

Send these Act(s) to you congressional member to do something to protect us

The Foreign Propaganda Ban Act

The Public Right to Truth Act

The sovereignty in Information Act

https://www.cordova2028.com/pdfs/The-Foreign-Propaganda-Ban-Act.pdf

https://www.cordova2028.com/pdfs/The-Public-Right-to-Truth-Act.pdf

https://www.cordova2028.com/pdfs/The-Sovereignty-in-Information-Act.pdf