Despite publicly claiming to delete government backed propaganda
- Twitter worked with the Pentagon to promote a series of fake accounts claiming to be people based in the Middle East
- The revelation comes from the latest installment in the Twitter Files – the eighth such installment, published this time by San Francisco-based reporter Lee Fang
- Twitter ‘quietly aided the Pentagon’s covert online PsyOp campaign,’ Fang said, in a time frame spanning at least the years 2017-2020
- The work was done to bolster 52 accounts tweeting in Arabic, which promoted the U.S. policies in the Middle East
- Fang said it was done despite Twitter having ‘claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect’ and ‘thwart gov-backed platform manipulation’
Harriet Alexander – Daily Mail.com Dec 21, 2022
Twitter worked with the Pentagon to promote fake accounts in the Middle East which praised U.S. policy, it has emerged – despite the social media company insisting that it made ‘concerted efforts’ to ‘detect and thwart government-backed platform manipulation’.
The collusion spanned at least four years, from 2017 to 2020, and saw top Twitter executives liaise with military intelligence on ‘a covert online PsyOp campaign’ – promoting accounts including one that claimed the U.S. drone bombings in Yemen killed only terrorists.
The revelations were made by Lee Fang, who on Tuesday published the eighth installment of what is termed the Twitter Files.
Fang, a San Francisco-based journalist who writes for The Intercept, is following on from stories published by reporters Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss since the beginning of the month.
‘Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations,’ Fang wrote.
‘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.’
Fang pointed to emails showing that the cooperation with the Pentagon began at least five years ago.
An official from U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, wrote to Twitter executives on July 26, 2017.
Email from CENTCOM official to Twitter asking for special attention for accounts they managed in their psy ops
Nathaniel Kahler asked the executive, on the public policy team, to approve the verification of one account and ‘whitelist’ a list of Arab-language accounts ‘we use to amplify certain messages.’
Kahler wrote: ‘We’ve got some accounts that are not indexing on hashtags — perhaps they were flagged as bots.
‘A few of these had built a real following and we hope to salvage.’
Kahler added that he was happy to provide more paperwork from his office or SOCOM, the acronym for the U.S. Special Operations Command.
At the time, according to sources who spoke to The Intercept, Twitter was working to flag as spam any accounts that engaged with extremists, in particular those affiliated with the Islamic State.
Kahler sent a spreadsheet to the Twitter team with 52 accounts, and asked for ‘priority service’.
Among the accounts singled out for preferential treatment was the since-deleted @yemencurrent, which claimed that U.S. drone strikes were ‘accurate’ and killed terrorists, not civilians.
The account also praised the U.S. and Saudi-backed assault on Houthi rebels in that country.
Other accounts supported U.S.-backed armed groups in Syria, and promoted anti-Iran messages in Iraq – another discussed legal issues in Kuwait, Fang reported.
On the same day that Kahler sent his request, Twitter engineers discussed setting up a separate tag for the accounts – a move Twitter insiders told Fang was highly unusual.
Kahler told Twitter the accounts would all be ‘USG-attributed, Arabic-language accounts tweeting on relevant security issues’ – but many of the accounts did not in fact mention that they were being run by the U.S. government.
At least one of the accounts, @mktashif, now deleted, was a ‘deep fake’, with a computer-generated profile picture and AI-manufactured content.
Another account, @althughur, also now deleted, posted anti-Iran and anti-ISIS content focused on an Iraqi audience, The Intercept reported.
The account initially declared its CENTCOM link, but then switched to an Arabic phrase meaning ‘Euphrates pulse.’
The former Twitter employee told The Intercept that they were surprised to learn of the Defense Department’s shifting tactics.
‘It sounds like DOD was doing something shady and definitely not in line with what they had presented to us at the time,’ they said.
As the 2020 election drew closer, Pentagon officials requested meetings with Twitter and Facebook executives in a secretive, secure meeting room.
The gathering would be held in a sensitive compartmented information facility, also known as a SCIF.
‘Facebook have had a series of 1:1 conversations between their senior legal leadership and DOD’s [general counsel] re: inauthentic activity,’ wrote Yoel Roth, then the head of trust and safety at Twitter.
Roth was fired by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, in November.
Yoel Roth, head of trust and safety at Twitter, was highly involved in the liaison between the Pentagon and Twitter’s teams
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But we’ve known this for donkeys years. I had quite a few Twitter spats with Piers Morgan. One of Morgan’s favourite put downs was his targets low number of followers. He would mock them, just as the BBC would tell a sheeple ‘that’s your view’, the inference being that you’re a lone nutter, and no one else holds that view. Morgan was effectively doing the same thing, you don’t have many followers, so you are irrelevant.
The sheeple who were at Twitter should be prosecuted. We should also have laws banning intel from having any contact with the media, and I know it won’t happen, but it kinds makes my point about just how evil the West has become, and don’t get me wrong, it happens in Russia and China, but couldn’t suggest the Russia propaganda machine is anywhere near comparable to the NWO, after all, the Nazis were propaganda masters.
And this brings me to something I’ve mentioned many times on here.
How many seasoned Truthseeker contributors are in the CIA and MI6’s pay? Me, I know its a fact, a truth, but I can only guess. Maybe 70%, maybe it fluctuates. I think it depends on how intel rates their feedback.
I’m not saying it’s all lies, it’s not. We’ve had a few Dr Sam Bailey vids on here. I’ve never been sucked in by her, but I do try to weed out her crap, but one day she said something, and she blew her cover. Her internation was all wrong.
All the main alternative UKraine war pundits, I don’t trust them. Sure, much of their analysis is sound, but they are always slipping in misdirection.
Yoel Roth is an example of why Christians booted Jews out of 109 countries and how Jews subverted Babylon, ancient Egyptian, Athenian and Roman Civilizations. Persistent liars will claim Jews invented Christianity to destroy Rome but it was mostly due to Jewish usury, war mongering, pharmakia, the promotion of homosexuality, child sacrifice and pedophilia. Roth was head of “trust and safety at Twitter” and encouraged children to get on a gay hook-up app called Grindr. He also worked with the FBI, an organization that rushes in to protect Jews like Jeffery Epstein when lower level goyim law enforcement is about to get their hands on the names of elite pedophiles. When Lone Skum outed him, Roth and his husband had to flee for their safety. Two ticks had to flea for their lives. But Roth is OK now, he is a Survivor! Will their suffering never cease?
I sometimes click a link to social websites but I’d never join them.
I find it odd that the DOD would hold high level conversations with Twitter and Facebook executives in a “a sensitive compartmented information facility, also known as a SCIF,” while exchanging emails with no attached security clearance. Was this simple carelessness, or was it expected that these emails might see the light of day?
The Twitter file dumps also seem to raise some questions about national security.
How many corporations of any kind– but most especially Apple, Google, and Facebook– also have compromising conversations with CIA, FBI, or DOD officials in regular emails that have been stored somewhere by the company? Should a foreign buyer or foreign government be able to gain access to potentially compromising national security communications by simply buying a company?
Twitter is to fungible reality what Will Ferrel is to Santa’s elves.
Don’t worry:
Musk…Trump and Kanye will save us.!!!
TrUsT mE