ASPI - a US defence industry funded Australian 'think tank' - officially partners with Twitter to identify and label Chinese accounts as 'disinformation'. It is meta-propaganda, a very effective technique for narrative formation.
Last week, it was reported that a part-time soldier in the UK army’s psychological warfare unit, the 77th Brigade, was also Twitter’s head of editorial for the Middle East.[..] Twitter says that MacMillan’s role has been reviewed by the company’s compliance teams and is not currently in violation of the platform’s policies. [..]
But any potential bias may also be connected to groups that help social networks investigate online disinformation. Facebook has engaged the Atlantic Council, whose board includes people like Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and several former or current heads of the CIA. [..]
Twitter, meanwhile, to help decide what media is state-controlled has relied on input from Freedom House, a narrative management firm that is funded largely by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a body that is in turn directly funded by the US government, and was set up in 1983 to push regime change in foreign nations. FireEye, a cybersecurity firm relied on by Facebook to decide which accounts are inauthentic, was founded in 2004 and received early funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Imagine you're from somewhere in the Middle East, and the same people doing regime change in your neighborhood, are also in charge of policing Twitter and Facebook. You would, rightly, regard those social media as enemy territory.
Or if that's too difficult, try imagining if the Russian FSB was funding Twitter's anti-disinformation groups, and Belarusan psychological warfare officers headed it's editorial department for Eastern Europe.
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[ 0.13 ms ] story [ 23.1 ms ] threadBut any potential bias may also be connected to groups that help social networks investigate online disinformation. Facebook has engaged the Atlantic Council, whose board includes people like Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and several former or current heads of the CIA. [..]
Twitter, meanwhile, to help decide what media is state-controlled has relied on input from Freedom House, a narrative management firm that is funded largely by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a body that is in turn directly funded by the US government, and was set up in 1983 to push regime change in foreign nations. FireEye, a cybersecurity firm relied on by Facebook to decide which accounts are inauthentic, was founded in 2004 and received early funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Imagine you're from somewhere in the Middle East, and the same people doing regime change in your neighborhood, are also in charge of policing Twitter and Facebook. You would, rightly, regard those social media as enemy territory.
Or if that's too difficult, try imagining if the Russian FSB was funding Twitter's anti-disinformation groups, and Belarusan psychological warfare officers headed it's editorial department for Eastern Europe.