BREAKING: TWITTER FILES 8!
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Lee Fang@lhfang
1. TWITTER FILES PART 8
*How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*
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.
8:02 PM · Dec 20, 2022
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Edit: WOW “Yay they aren’t on to us!”
Lee Fang@lhfang
19. Twitter’s comms team was closely in touch with reporters, working to minimize Twitter’s role. When the WashPost reported on the scandal, Twitter officials congratulated each other because the story didn’t mention any Twitter employees & focused largely on the Pentagon.
8:46 PM · Dec 20, 2022
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Oh! There’s also a non-Twitter story written by the author. Smart!
This will also function as an open thread for the day 🙂
On Twitter the other day, a red-pilled liberal that I follow said the following: "Nearly every instance of government overreach that I'm fighting or fearful of today has its roots in the Patriot Act. Why wasn't I screaming and resisting 20 years ago? Why weren't all of us?"
To which my answer was, "We were, but you weren't listening."
There are two ways to react to frightening situations (be they 9/11 or a worldwide pandemic): the first is to throw up your hands and look for someone else to save you and gladly hand over your civil liberties for the short-term illusion of safety, and the second is to understand that no matter what happens, you have far more to fear from a government with power than any terrorist act, or pandemic or attack on "democracy." The people who understand the second are few and far between, but in the end, you will always and without exception at some point regret not listening to them.
My man Ron Paul.
I saw him speak once.. I think it was 10 years ago? Maybe longer.
He came up to New England and spoke at a nearby college auditorium.
Completely banged it out, massive crowd. Vibes were great.
But yeah, this is it. The Government is controlling the media, the economy, where you can and cant go. Everything you say or do is tracked (and even if initially done by private companies, the info is being funnelled to government). The Military Industrial Complex is out of control in a poorly defined money pit of a war
(and to point out the obvious, it's ukraine now, but there was basically 0 time off getting there from the endless war in the middle east before it).
The fed is running completely rampant and has given up all guise of being an independent entity.
So like, yeah. This is it, he did warn us. And here we are.