Twitter Aided U.S. Military Covert Online Propaganda Campaign, Latest Twitter Files Reveal, by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

The latest “Twitter files” document dump, posted by journalist Lee Fang of The Intercept, revealed that Twitter knowingly violated its own internal policies and public claims that it prohibited all forms of government-backed propaganda by protecting accounts created by the U.S. military.

Part eight of the “Twitter files,” released Tuesday, revealed another layer of collusion between Twitter and elements of the U.S. government and military establishment, including that Twitter protected numerous accounts and personas created by the U.S. military for the dissemination of propaganda in the Middle East and beyond.

The latest “Twitter files” document drop, posted by journalist Lee Fang of The Intercept, revealed that Twitter knowingly violated its own internal policies and public claims that it prohibited all forms of government-backed propaganda.

The accounts created by the Pentagon and U.S. military sought to influence public opinion in several countries. …

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