Pentagon installs military influencers in civilian roles

dataflow 11 points 1 comment August 31, 2026
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Nothing new: Spooks infiltrate Silicon Valley: Facebook is riddled with ex-CIA agents – including President’s briefer who now runs 'harmful content' team – so many ex-FBI work at Twitter they have Slack channel and Google is rife with ex-CIA - https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-11562433/Facebook-rid... Facebook, Twitter stocked with ex-FBI, CIA officials in key posts - https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-... Twitter Is Said to Have Struggled Over Revealing US Influence Campaign - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/twitter-milita... Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign; Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad. - https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-... "We bring out the moderate voices. We amplify those. And in more detail, we detect and we flag if there is adversary, hostile, corrosive content in some open-source Web forum, [and] we engage with the Web administrators to show that this violates Web site provider policies." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

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