by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:
Twitter whitelisted secret CENTCOM accounts with “deep-fake” avatars and helped boost their covert psychological operations overseas, according to the latest “Twitter Files” release.
From The Intercept, “Twitter Aided The Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign”:
[T]he social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U.S. military’s network of social media accounts and online personas, whitelisting a batch of accounts at the request of the government. The Pentagon has used this network, which includes U.S. government-generated news portals and memes, in an effort to shape opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and beyond.
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Yikes! https://t.co/Qr0KyPuOYf
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2022
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
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022
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.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 20, 2022
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