Propaganda Prime Time: What the Media Won’t Say about what DOGE is Finding

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Propaganda Prime Time: What the Media Won’t Say about what DOGE is Finding"

Episode: Propaganda Prime Time: What the Media Won’t Say about what DOGE is Finding
Release Date: May 29, 2025
Host: Ben Ferguson
Podcast: The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Producer: Premiere Networks

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Introduction

In this episode of The 47 Morning Update, host Ben Ferguson delves into two significant and controversial topics: the recent cleanup efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) regarding Social Security discrepancies, and a study highlighting media bias against Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Ferguson provides detailed insights, includes exclusive interviews, and presents alarming statistics that challenge mainstream narratives.

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Story 1: Social Security Cleanup by DOGE

Timestamp: [02:54] - [10:29]

Ben Ferguson opens the discussion by addressing a major initiative undertaken by DOGE to rectify anomalies within the Social Security system. He reveals that DOGE has successfully removed 12.3 million individuals erroneously listed as aged 120 or older. This revelation follows a series of updates from DOGE:

• March 18: DOGE marked 3.2 million Social Security number holders aged 120+ as deceased.
• April 24: An additional 11 million individuals were removed from the system.

Ferguson emphasizes the scale of this cleanup, stating, “One of the big reasons why Donald Trump was elected is he promised you, the American taxpayer, that he was going to make sure that your money was no longer wasted” ([02:55], [03:00]).

Exclusive Interview with Antonio:

Ferguson introduces an interview with Antonio, a representative assisting DOGE in this cleanup process. Antonio provides a detailed account of the findings:

• Discovery of Fraud: Originally aiming to uncover fraud, DOGE inadvertently discovered a substantial number of non-citizens receiving Social Security numbers.

  Antonio: “This literally blew us away. Like, we went there to find fraud and we found this by accident.” ([06:04])

• Pathways for Illegal Immigration: Antonio outlines the methods through which illegal immigrants obtain Social Security numbers, including asylum applications and administrative offenses at ports of entry.

  Antonio: “You can apply for a work document. You file a765. It's the work form. You get this form called the 766. That's the authorization.” ([07:15])

• Implications on Public Benefits and Voting: The interview reveals that 1.3 million non-citizens are on Medicaid, with many also registered to vote—a claim that has stirred significant controversy.

  Antonio: “We found people here registered to vote in this population... some did vote, and we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service.” ([09:28])

Ferguson reiterates the gravity of these findings:

“Elon Musk and Antonio show a chart of new non-citizen Social Security numbers issued. They said it literally blew them away. They went there to find fraud. And what they found was all of this by accident.” ([09:40])

Key Takeaways:

• Massive cleanup of erroneous Social Security records by DOGE.
• Discovery of significant non-citizen involvement in public benefits and potential voter fraud.
• Ongoing investigations and the need for continued oversight to prevent misuse of public resources.

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Story 2: Media Bias Against Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Timestamp: [10:30] - [14:47]

Ferguson transitions to a study conducted by the Media Research Center, which examines the media's portrayal of Elon Musk during President Donald Trump's second term. The study reveals that Musk received a staggering 96% negative coverage from major US television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) within the first 100 days of Trump's term.

He draws a comparison to the media coverage of Trump himself during the same period, which stood at 92% negative. Ferguson interprets this data to suggest that the media targets not only Trump but also his allies with even harsher scrutiny.

Interview Highlights:

Ferguson references a segment from Joe Rogan's show featuring Aaron Rodgers, where they discuss the negative media coverage of Elon Musk:

Joe Rogan: “...96% of all the stories that mainstream media prints about Elon are negative 96%. Meanwhile, the guy saved those people trapped up in space...” ([12:43])

Aaron Rodgers: “And saving billions of dollars of your tax money from going to fun, stupid programs.” ([13:15])

Rodgers further criticizes the media for not holding executives accountable in government:

Aaron Rodgers: “How come nobody has gone to prison? That's one of my main questions for Trump and the administration.” ([13:41])

Elon Musk's Response:

In response to the study, Elon Musk accuses the legacy media of orchestrating a deliberate campaign to undermine him due to his political stance and influential position within the administration.

Ferguson's Analysis:

Ferguson underscores the implications of this bias, stating:

“When you're watching the nightly news, you're not actually watching the news anymore on ABC, NBC or CBS. You're watching liberal government-sponsored propaganda...” ([14:47])

He advocates for widespread dissemination of the study to raise public awareness about media manipulation and its impact on shaping public perception.

Key Takeaways:

• Significant negative media coverage directed at Elon Musk, surpassing even that of Donald Trump.
• Allegations of deliberate media campaigns to undermine influential figures allied with the Trump administration.
• Concerns over media's role in shaping narratives and influencing public opinion against key political and business leaders.

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Conclusion

In this episode, Ben Ferguson presents two pressing issues: the extensive cleanup of Social Security records revealing potential fraud involving non-citizens, and a study exposing pronounced media bias against Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Through detailed analysis and exclusive interviews, Ferguson challenges listeners to question mainstream narratives and highlights the importance of transparency and accountability in both government operations and media practices.

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Note: The claims and statements presented in this summary are based on the content of the podcast episode and have not been independently verified. Listeners are encouraged to consult multiple sources to form a comprehensive understanding of the topics discussed.

Transcript

[Ben Ferguson]

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[Ben Ferguson]

You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. Ben Ferguson with you. And we have two major stories for this morning coming from the Trump administration. First up, in a shocking development, Social Security has now officially removed 12.3 million individuals listed at the age of 120 or more. And you will also be shocked by how many illegal immigrants have Social Security numbers and are receiving benefits from our government as part of the investigation. Those details in a moment. And finally, you may not hate the media as much much as you should after a study has come out stating just how much negative news there is during the first 100 days on Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I'll break that down for you as well.

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[Ben Ferguson]

Update and it starts right now.

Story number one.

One of the big reasons why Donald Trump was elected is he promised you, the American taxpayer, that he was going to make sure that your money was no long. Well, he's making good on that promise yet again. This time it deals with Social Security and the fact that we've had to remove from the Social Security roles 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older. That according to the U.S. department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. Now, the discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months. And as a result, in March, Doge began to update the American people on the massive cleanup begun by Social Security. In a March 18 update, Doge said Social Security had marked 3.2 million Social Security number holders aged 120 or older as deceased, warning that there was still more work to be done. Over one month later, on April 24, Doge provided another update revealing that a stunning 11 million individuals listed as age 120 or more were now being marked as deceased. And the most recent update delivered this week by Doge, they revealed that a total of 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older are now officially marked as deceased in the system. Elon Musk brought on stage to talk about this issue. Antonio, gracias. And he showed a chart of the new non citizen Social Security numbers that have also been issued. He said it literally blew them away. So it's not just people that are dead or 120 and older, but it's also illegal immigrants as well. Take a listen to what they said.

[Antonio]

So, Antonio, can you tell us what, what you. Antonio is helping out with Social Security. So just trying to review Social Security where you may have heard that we found 20 million dead people marked as alive in the Social Security database. This is so crazy. And then you'll notice there's a strange trend here where how many Social Security numbers were issued? Do you want to.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. So let me tell you what happened here. We started at the top of the system. We started the top of the system mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was. And there's a lot of great people there that showed Us, really a lot of waste. And so that came up with a big list of stuff they're working on. You've heard some of that already, but this is what jumped out at us. When we saw these numbers, we were like, what is this? In 21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2.1 million. 24. These are non citizens that are getting Social Security numbers.

[Antonio]

Yeah. This is a mind blowing chart.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. Just this. This literally blew us away. Like, we went there to find fraud and we found this by accident. And this isn't political, by the way. My parents. Immigrants. Yeah. This country's been great to us. My brother and sister, all born in Spain. I'm pro legal immigration. This is not. This is not political. This is not political. This is about America and the future of America. And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed us in this direct to. I want to honor them right now that work in the government today who took risk to show us these numbers and tell us what's going on. So I want to stop for a minute. I want to. I want to honor those people today. Very good people. Very good people. I have been from D.C. to Social Security offices to the border to track this down, and very good people have helped us along the way. I want to thank them.

[Antonio]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you're an illegal, there's a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry and you can tell them you're afraid you'll get. They'll give you an asylum. Asylum case. You'll get an interview, then you get in. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened. I talked to border patrol myself. Elon was there too. I went to Laredo and I went to Bronzeville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to border patrol officer and you tell them you want to come in. They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make it an administrative offense like a parking ticket. Basically, they were told to do that. Make an administrative offense under the last administration, and then you go walk across the border. They do what's called a release from your own recognizance, and they give you an NTA notice to appear, which to appear to judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years. Look at Grok. You'll see it on immigration judges, there's only 700 of them. This is 5.5 million people. Okay, so what happens then once you're in the country and you got asylum through one of these pathways? We've mapped the whole thing out. You can apply for a work document. You file a765. It's the work form. You get this form called the 766. That's the authorization. And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social street number. No interview, no id.

[Antonio]

This is worth, like, just reiterating. It's not that. It's not. People sometimes think that under the Biden administration, that he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn't asleep. They weren't asleep at the switch. It was a massive, large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent deep blue one party state from which there would be no escape.

[Unknown Speaker]

Look, if I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right, this is true. The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people, and minimum collection. That's what's happening. We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid. As an example. We've gone through, on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why? We're asking ourselves why. And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records, and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.

[Antonio]

And who did vote.

[Unknown Speaker]

And. And we found some by sampling that actually did vote, and we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service.

[Ben Ferguson]

Yeah, already.

[Unknown Speaker]

Already. That is already happening.

[Ben Ferguson]

So let's just be clear what you just heard. Elon Musk and Antonio show a chart of new non citizen Social Security numbers issued. They said it literally blew them away. They went there to find fraud. And what they found was all of this by accident. The update coincides with other red flags issued by Elon Musk and Doge as well. They made waves in March when he said at least 2.1 million non citizens are receiving Social Security numbers in 2024 alone. So not only is that true, they're also on Medicare, Medicaid, and many of them have registered to vote. And have actually voted. So, yes, illegal immigrants are actually voting in this country. And this is exactly why Doge has so much more work to continue to do.

Now, story number two.

There is a new study that has just come out that makes us realize we might not hate the media as much as we actually should for their bias and lying against Donald Trump and people that are close to him. We all know how much the media lied about Donald Trump. Russian collusion is a great example. Or how much they protected the Biden crime family by claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't even real. We also know that they used the media countless times to try to impeach Donald Trump not once, but twice and to overthrow the will of the people. But what happens when you are an ally of the President and you're standing with him in his second term in office? Well, now we understand because of the data, just how hard it is to stand up for what you believe in. A recent study by the Media Research center has found that Elon Musk received 96% negative coverage from major US television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS during the first hundred days of President Donald Trump's second term. Now, how extreme is 96% negative coverage? Well, during the first hundred days of President Donald Trump's second term, he only received 92% negative coverage for himself during the same period. Meaning that the media understands that Donald Trump is evil in their eyes and they'll do whatever they can to take him out. But if you're an ally of the President, they'll come after you even harder. Now, the analysis focus on evening newscasts and highlight the intense scrutiny that Elon Musk faced, particularly in the role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency. You know, it is doge. The study's findings have sparked discussion about media extremist bias and the portrayal of influential figures in the tech industry who stand with Donald Trump. What's even worse is the fact that they do it to destroy his entire livelihood, attacking his companies and anything that he has invested in. Joe Rogan talking about this in his show with Aaron Rodgers. And here's what they had to say about the shocking details of this report.

[Joe Rogan]

And recently that showed that 96 of all the stories that mainstream media prints about Elon are negative 96%. Meanwhile, the guy saved those people trapped up in space. Yeah, you didn't hear a peep.

[Aaron Rodgers]

And he does. When there's natural disasters with the Starlink.

[Joe Rogan]

Oh, yeah, he's revolutionizing space travel, revolutionizing satellite Internet capabilities, and. And the availability all over the world. It's crazy. It's really crazy.

[Aaron Rodgers]

And saving billions of dollars of your tax money from going to fun, stupid programs.

[Joe Rogan]

It's not just the programs. Some of it is like you don't even know where it went.

[Aaron Rodgers]

It's corruption, too.

[Joe Rogan]

He said that some of the money that there was billions of dollars that was written out with no receipts at all. He said if this was a private company or, excuse me, a public company, they would be delisted and all the executives be thrown in prison. But in the government, it's just like standard practice.

[Aaron Rodgers]

How come nobody has gone to prison? That's one of my main questions for Trump and the administration.

[Joe Rogan]

It's a good question.

[Ben Ferguson]

It is a great question. Why aren't people going to jail? And there's a good chance moving forward that may actually happen. As for Elon Musk, he's responded the new study's results accusing the legacy media of dishonesty and suggesting that the negative coverage is part of a deliberate campaign to undermine him due to his influential status and political leanings. Now, this situation clearly underscores the relationship between the media and the narratives that they want to push on public perception, especially concerning high profile individuals who play a significant role in Donald Trump's administration. One thing is for sure, this study needs to be shared everywhere so the people understand that when you're watching the nightly news, you're not actually watching the news anymore on abc, NBC or cbs. You're watching liberal government sponsored propaganda and it's there to undermine Donald Trump and anyone around him in the administration.

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