Elon Asked Who Sends The Instructions.
We’re Finding Out.
True Signal Media | December 11, 2025
Yesterday, Elon Musk asked a question that 8.7 million people wanted answered: “Who sends them their instructions?”
He was talking about legacy media outlets using identical phrases at identical times – the synchronized messaging that makes millions of Americans wonder if journalism died and nobody told us.
Here’s our answer: We’re using FOIA requests to find out.
Not speculation. Not conspiracy theories. Actual government documents showing who’s coordinating what.
The Pattern Is Real
When every major outlet suddenly starts using the same phrase – “threat to democracy,” “mostly peaceful,” “without evidence” – it’s not coincidence. It’s coordination. The question is: coordination from where?
Traditional media won’t investigate themselves. They can’t. Their institutional relationships, access dependencies, and advertising revenue create conflicts of interest that make self-examination nearly impossible.
So we’re doing it for them.
What We’re Actually Finding
True Signal Media currently has 190+ active FOIA requests in motion across federal agencies. We’re not asking politely. We’re forcing disclosure through systematic legal pressure – and the coordination patterns we’re finding answer Musk’s question.
Example: The State Department’s Coordinated FOIA Shutdowns
We documented something remarkable recently: One State Department office closed 9 separate FOIA requests on the same day, using nearly identical language, citing the same exemptions. Nine different requests about the same case. Same day. Same response.
The case? A U.S. Army veteran who’s been stranded in Africa for over 5 years while the U.S. Embassy in his country ignored him. Recently, embassy officials threatened to jail him if he came to the embassy for help.
Ambassador told this Black veteran “Americans aren’t Black” when he sought help.
We have evidence suggesting he was potentially trafficked through coordination between Army personnel and embassy officials.
When True Signal Media and our sister organization Covenant for Forgotten Warriors started filing FOIAs on various aspects of this case, things escalated. The veteran’s situation got worse. Embassy threats intensified. And suddenly, 9 FOIA requests – all closed simultaneously.
That’s not bureaucratic coincidence. That’s coordinated obstruction to prevent discovery of what happened to this veteran and who was involved.
Example: The Epstein Files They Don’t Want Found
Our investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s government connections has hit coordinated resistance across agencies. FBI, CIA, State Department – all suddenly discovering “privacy concerns” about a dead pedophile’s government handlers.
But FOIA law doesn’t work that way. Dead people have no privacy rights. The coordination suggests protection of living parties who appeared in Epstein’s network.
We’re appealing every closure. We’re getting documents. And we’re publishing what we find.
How This Actually Works
Step 1: Investigate Accountability Failures
We target specific government failures – veterans abandoned by embassies, COVID fraud schemes, agency misconduct, cover-ups. We file FOIA requests demanding documentation of what happened and who knew about it.
Step 2: Document Obstruction Patterns
When agencies stall, deny, or coordinate closures, we document the pattern. Nine FOIAs closed same day? That’s evidence. Identical denial language across different cases? That’s coordination. Missing statutory deadlines systematically? That’s obstruction.
Step 3: Legal Pressure Through Appeals
When agencies violate FOIA law, we appeal. When they miss deadlines, we escalate. When they coordinate resistance, we expose it. We use their own legal violations as evidence of what they’re trying to hide.
Step 4: Publication
Every document we obtain gets published. Every coordination pattern gets exposed. Every official who participated gets named. The obstruction itself becomes the story.
The Investigations Running Now
Here’s what we’re actively pursuing:
Veteran Abandonment & Cover-Ups:
- Army veteran stranded in Africa for 5+ years while embassy threatens him
- Ambassador told this Black veteran “Americans aren’t Black” when he sought help
- Evidence of potential trafficking coordination between Army and State Department
- 9 FOIAs closed simultaneously when we got close to the truth
- State Department officials dismissing cases as “romance scams” without investigation
COVID Fraud & USDA Accountability:
- Feeding Our Future case: $240 million in stolen COVID relief funds
- USDA threatening states with hundreds of millions in penalties for refusing to share SNAP recipient data
- 21-state public records campaign tracking program manipulation
- Trump administration’s $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance program documentation
Cover-Ups & Obstruction:
- Jeffrey Epstein’s government connections and handlers
- Multiple agencies coordinating “privacy concerns” about a dead pedophile to protect living parties
- January 6th federal agency coordination and classification patterns
- Systematic FOIA violations across federal offices when requests target specific failures
Why We Can Do This When Others Won’t
Traditional outlets can’t investigate these failures aggressively because they’re embedded in the system. Their reporters need access to government sources. Their editors worry about burning bridges. Their executives fear losing credentials or facing retaliation.
We don’t need any of that.
True Signal Media has no access to protect, no relationships to preserve, no advertising revenue to risk. We’re funded by readers who want actual accountability journalism, not stenography dressed up as investigation.
That independence lets us ask the questions others won’t: Why did an ambassador tell a stranded Black veteran “Americans aren’t Black”? Why did 9 FOIAs close simultaneously when we got close to the truth? Who coordinated the response? Who benefits from the cover-up?
The Answer To Elon’s Question
Who sends them their instructions?
Sometimes it’s White House talking points filtered through press offices. Sometimes it’s agency communications coordinators working with preferred journalists. Sometimes it’s shared source documents distributed simultaneously to multiple outlets.
And sometimes – increasingly often – it’s coordinated obstruction of FOIA requests designed to prevent anyone from finding out.
But here’s the thing about FOIA law: It doesn’t care about coordination. It doesn’t recognize “talking points” as exemptions. It requires disclosure.
So we keep requesting. We keep appealing. We keep documenting. And we keep publishing.
What Happens Next
We’re expanding our FOIA operations to intensify pressure on systematic failures:
1. Veteran advocacy cases – filing comprehensive requests on every stranded American veteran case, documenting embassy failures and State Department coordination to dismiss legitimate cases
2. COVID fraud investigations – expanding the Feeding Our Future investigation while tracking USDA’s threats against states refusing to comply with data sharing demands
3. Epstein network documentation – appealing every coordinated closure, forcing agencies to justify why they’re protecting connections to a dead pedophile
4. Obstruction pattern tracking – documenting which agencies coordinate closures, which officials sign identical denials, which cases trigger systematic resistance
Every document we obtain gets published in full. Every coordination pattern gets mapped. Every official involved gets named.
This isn’t opinion journalism. This is documentary evidence of how government accountability dies in coordinated silence.
Join The Investigation
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The Bottom Line
Elon asked who sends the instructions. Millions of people want to know the answer.
Here’s what we’ve learned: The coordination isn’t just in what media outlets say. It’s in what government agencies hide.
When we investigate veteran abandonment, suddenly 9 FOIAs close simultaneously. When we track COVID fraud, agencies coordinate resistance. When we pursue Epstein’s government connections, multiple agencies discover the same “privacy concerns” at the same time.
The obstruction patterns reveal the coordination. The cover-ups expose the system.
We’re not speculating. We’re not theorizing. We’re using federal transparency law to force disclosure – and documenting what happens when we get close to the truth.
So we keep filing requests. We keep fighting closures. We keep publishing documents.
Because accountability journalism isn’t dead. It’s just been systematically obstructed.
True Signal Media exists to break the obstruction.