Information released by Lee Fang of The Intercept shows how Twitter assisted the Pentagon in its psychological influence operations.
These Twitter Files releases are going deeper and deeper into the dystopian rabbit hole. The info in today's drop, given to you by Lee Fang of The Intercept, sheds light on Twitter's initiatives to support the Pentagon's "online psychological influence ops."
One of the nation's best investigative journalists -- who published documents in late October proving Homeland Security is heavily involved in Big Tech's censorship regime -- is now helping to report the Twitter Files. Hard to think of many journalists more credible to do this: https://t.co/a7G3n1jRVy
2. Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda. pic.twitter.com/2H2Sf49Xff
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3. But behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active.
4. In 2017, a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language a...
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