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Bit idea: arguing that NATO are the real tankies

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.

Behind the scenes, however, the social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U.S. military’s network of social media accounts and online personas, whitelisting a batch of accounts at the request of the government. The Pentagon has used this network, which includes U.S. government-generated news portals and memes, in an effort to shape opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and beyond.

It’s nice to have substantial evidence, but at the same time: :shocked-pikachu:

[Mary Anastasia O’Grady] is well known for her positions regarding classical liberalism, her frontal rejection of leftist governments in the Americas and for being in favor of the legalization of drug trafficking

:fidel-wut:

:geordi-no: outdoor cats struggle session

:geordi-no: outdoor people struggle session

:geordi-yes: mudbutt struggle session

The “thing a lot of ppl don’t talk about” in this case happens to be a thing reddit loves to talk about all the time.

Also, I bet these redditers would feel the same if Russia nuked Kiev… right?

slava tamrieli

on the one hand: heightening contradictions :lets-fucking-go:

on the other hand: this will suck for a lot of people and there’s little class consciousness to speak of :sadness-abysmal:

SSuperman

Isn’t this the guy who got caught because he went on a spending spree?

Brogurt