Twitter Colluded With Pentagon To Run Network of Fake Accounts Around the World – Including AI-Created Deep Fakes – Despite Publicly Claiming To Delete Government Backed Propaganda
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.
Source: The Daily Mail
