{"id":135135,"date":"2022-12-22T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135135"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:27:41","slug":"twitter-pentagon-information-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135135","title":{"rendered":"Twitter + Pentagon = Information Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-135136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon-500x222.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon-1536x682.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/twitter-pentagon.jpg 2002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the surface, this seemed implausible. However, the more I thought about it, it made sense. Maybe a better term than &#8216;made sense&#8217; would be that it was &#8216;plausible&#8217; if not &#8216;understandable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11559991\/Twitter-colluded-Pentagon-run-network-fake-accounts-world.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter colluded with Pentagon to run network of fake accounts around the world \u2013 including AI-created deep fakes \u2013 despite publicly claiming to delete government backed propaganda<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Twitter worked with the Pentagon to promote a series of fake accounts claiming to be people based in the Middle East<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The revelation comes from the latest installment in the Twitter Files &#8211; the eighth such installment, published this time by San Francisco-based reporter Lee Fang<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Twitter\u00a0&#8216;quietly aided the Pentagon&#8217;s covert online PsyOp campaign,&#8217; Fang said, in a time frame spanning at least the years 2017-2020<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The work was done to bolster 52 accounts tweeting in Arabic, which promoted the U.S. policies in the Middle East<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Fang said it was done despite Twitter having &#8216;claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect&#8217; and &#8216;thwart gov-backed platform manipulation&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By\u00a0HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM |<span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"> PUBLISHED: <time datetime=\"2022-12-21T00:02:57+0000\">20 December 2022\u00a0<\/time><\/span>|\u00a0<span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"><span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">UPDATED:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2022-12-21T15:06:11+0000\">21 December 2022<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Twitter\u00a0worked with the\u00a0Pentagon\u00a0to promote fake accounts in the Middle East which praised U.S. policy, it has emerged &#8211; despite the social media company insisting that it made &#8216;concerted efforts&#8217; to &#8216;detect and thwart government-backed platform manipulation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The collusion spanned at least four years, from 2017 to 2020, and saw top Twitter executives liaise with military intelligence on &#8216;a covert online PsyOp campaign&#8217; &#8211; promoting accounts including one that claimed the U.S. drone bombings in Yemen killed only terrorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The revelations were made by Lee Fang, who on Tuesday published\u00a0the eighth installment of what is termed the Twitter Files.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was all included in the Twitter Files Part 8, spearheaded by journalist Lee Fang.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, our adversaries tend to do the same thing.\u00a0 How many of you encountered that beautiful Asian girl wanting to be your girlfriend?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/asian-female.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-135138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/asian-female-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/asian-female-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/asian-female-488x333.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/asian-female.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many of you jumped at the chance to experience love for long time only to feel hurt and embarrassed when her profile was used in an all-hands briefing warning of the dangers of catfishing on social media?\u00a0 Who excused themselves from the brief to go to the bathroom and splash cold water on their face when nobody was looking to ease the sting of being duped?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly not me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, this seemed implausible. 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