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| Interesting that the Russians are following this so closely. |
[ColonelCassad] More and more dirty laundry related to the use of Twitter by the Pentagon and the CIA continues to emerge.
Commentary by a Russian blogger identified as Directorate 4
Twitter secretly provided the US Department of Defense with a platform to promote propaganda in the Middle East. This conclusion was reached by journalists who analyzed the company's internal documents, which were handed over to them by the new head of the service, Elon Musk.
In the summer of 2017, a US Central Command official sent a letter to Twitter with fifty-two accounts in Arabic and a request to add them to the so-called. "White list". The microblogs included in it enjoy a number of advantages over the rest. The accounts were not affected by the service's algorithms, which marked accounts as spam or violating the rules. Also, they were specially brought into trends in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and other countries.
In particular, one of the accounts, purporting to be from a Yemeni citizen, promoted the narrative that US airstrikes are precise and target only terrorists and not civilians. The author also actively supported the invasion of the Arab coalition into Yemen to fight against the militants of the Shiite movement Ansar Allah. Other accounts focused on the Syrian agenda. They praised the US-backed militias and spoke out against pro-Iranian groups in Syria. It should be noted that they also fought against the propaganda of the Islamic State, but to a lesser extent. Some microblogs were labeled as being related to the Pentagon, but then the mention of this disappeared.
The journalists were able to find similar networks of Facebook and Telegram accounts that spread invented news that could also be associated with the US defense department. Most often they criticized the Iranian authorities. For example, the authors accused Tehran of threatening Iraq's water security and smuggling drugs into the country, and promoted rumors that the Iranian authorities allegedly harvested organs from Afghan refugees.
It is noteworthy that in 2018, Twitter announced the fight against Russian propaganda. According to the service, some of the accounts were blocked, while others were marked as being associated with the Russian government. This was done ostensibly to combat Russian influence and misinformation. However, for the manipulation of public opinion by the US military, Twitter seems to have made an exception.
https://t.me/directorate4/14532 - zinc
Say Russian military journalist Boris Rozhn:
You will be surprised (no) but Facebook and Youtube are doing the same thing.
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