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December 23rd, 2022 
Awake Goy - Twitter worked with the Pentagon to promote a series of fake accounts claiming to be people based in the Middle East
- The revelation comes from the latest installment in the Twitter Files – the eighth such installment, published this time by San Francisco-based reporter Lee Fang
- Twitter ‘quietly aided the Pentagon’s covert online PsyOp campaign,’ Fang said, in a time frame spanning at least the years 2017-2020
- The work was done to bolster 52 accounts tweeting in Arabic, which promoted the U.S. policies in the Middle East
- Fang said it was done despite Twitter having ‘claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect’ and ‘thwart gov-backed platform manipulation’
By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:02 EST, 20 December 2022 | UPDATED: 10:06 EST, 21 December 2022
Twitter worked with the Pentagon to promote fake accounts in the Middle East which praised U.S. policy, it has emerged – despite the social media company insisting that it made ‘concerted efforts’ to ‘detect and thwart government-backed platform manipulation’.
The collusion spanned at least four years, from 2017 to 2020, and saw top Twitter executives liaise with military intelligence on ‘a covert online PsyOp campaign’ – promoting accounts including one that claimed the U.S. drone bombings in Yemen killed only terrorists.
The revelations were made by Lee Fang, who on Tuesday published the eighth installment of what is termed the Twitter Files.
The Pentagon worked with Twitter to promote accounts tweeting pro-U.S. content in the Middle East
Twitter accounts promoting U.S. policy in the Middle East were controlled by the Pentagon, and boosted by the social media company on the Pentagon’s request
Fang, a San Francisco-based journalist who writes for The Intercept, is following on from stories published by reporters Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss since the beginning of the month.
‘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,’ Fang wrote.
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‘Behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops.
‘Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active.’
Fang pointed to emails showing that the cooperation with the Pentagon began at least five years ago.
An official from U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, wrote to Twitter executives on July 26, 2017.
Fang included screenshots of an email from a CENTCOM official, asking for special attention for accounts they managed in their ‘psy ops’ work
Nathaniel Kahler asked the executive, on the public policy team, to approve the verification of one account and ‘whitelist’ a list of Arab-language accounts ‘we use to amplify certain messages.’
Kahler wrote: ‘We’ve got some accounts that are not indexing on hashtags — perhaps they were flagged as bots.
‘A few of these had built a real following and we hope to salvage.’
Kahler added that he was happy to provide more paperwork from his office or SOCOM, the acronym for the U.S. Special Operations Command.
At the time, according to sources who spoke to The Intercept, Twitter was working to flag as spam any accounts that engaged with extremists, in particular those affiliated with the Islamic State.
Kahler sent a spreadsheet to the Twitter team with 52 accounts, and asked for ‘priority service’.
Among the accounts singled out for preferential treatment was the since-deleted @yemencurrent, which claimed that U.S. drone strikes were ‘accurate’ and killed terrorists, not civilians.
The account also praised the U.S. and Saudi-backed assault on Houthi rebels in that country.
Other accounts supported U.S.-backed armed groups in Syria, and promoted anti-Iran messages in Iraq – another discussed legal issues in Kuwait, Fang reported.
On the same day that Kahler sent his request, Twitter engineers discussed setting up a separate tag for the accounts – a move Twitter insiders told Fang was highly unusual.
Kahler told Twitter the accounts would all be ‘USG-attributed, Arabic-language accounts tweeting on relevant security issues’ – but many of the accounts did not in fact mention that they were being run by the U.S. government.
At least one of the accounts, @mktashif, now deleted, was a ‘deep fake’, with a computer-generated profile picture and AI-manufactured content.
The profile picture for the account @mktashif, now deleted, was a ‘deep fake’, with a computer-generated image
Another account, @althughur, also now deleted, posted anti-Iran and anti-ISIS content focused on an Iraqi audience, The Intercept reported.
The account initially declared its CENTCOM link, but then switched to an Arabic phrase meaning ‘Euphrates pulse.’
The former Twitter employee told The Intercept that they were surprised to learn of the Defense Department’s shifting tactics.
‘It sounds like DOD was doing something shady and definitely not in line with what they had presented to us at the time,’ they said.
As the 2020 election drew closer, Pentagon officials requested meetings with Twitter and Facebook executives in a secretive, secure meeting room.
The gathering would be held in a sensitive compartmented information facility, also known as a SCIF.
‘Facebook have had a series of 1:1 conversations between their senior legal leadership and DOD’s [general counsel] re: inauthentic activity,’ wrote Yoel Roth, then the head of trust and safety at Twitter.
Roth was fired by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, in November.
Yoel Roth, head of trust and safety at Twitter, was highly involved in the liaison between the Pentagon and Twitter’s teams
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‘Per FB, DOD have indicated a strong desire to work with us to remove the activity — but are now refusing to discuss additional details or steps outside of a classified conversation.’
Stacia Cardille, then an attorney with Twitter, noted in an email to her colleagues that the Pentagon may want to retroactively classify its social media activities ‘to obfuscate their activity in this space, and that this may represent an overclassification to avoid embarrassment.’
Jim Baker, then the deputy general counsel of Twitter, also fired by Musk, commented that the Pentagon appeared to have used ‘poor tradecraft’ in setting up various Twitter accounts and needed to hide their involvement.
Baker, apparently keen to assist the Pentagon, speculated that in the meeting the ‘DoD might want to give us a timetable for shutting them down in a more prolonged way that will not compromise any ongoing operations or reveal their connections to DoD.’
In September this year, The Washington Post published a report into the Pentagon’s activities, but failed to uncover Twitter’s role helping the Defense Department.
‘Twitter’s comms team was closely in touch with reporters, working to minimize Twitter’s role,’ Fang wrote.
‘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.’
Fang concluded: ‘The conduct with the U.S. military’s covert network stands in stark contrast with how Twitter has boasted about rapidly identifying and taking down covert accounts tied to state-backed influence operations, including Thailand, Russia, Venezuela, and others since 2016.’
TWITTER FILES: PART EIGHT – PENTAGON ‘PSY OPS’
THE TWITTER FILES: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
BIDEN CAMPAIGN DEMANDED HUNTER TWEETS REMOVED
The first leaks showed how tweets were flagged for removal by President Joe Biden’s campaign team as well as by the Trump White House.
Three of the tweets the Biden camp demanded be deleted contained ‘Hunter Biden porn’ and photos of Biden’s genitalia, from the abandoned laptop, it has been claimed.
The laptop, which the New York Times authenticated long after right-wing media outlets were blasted for reporting about it, contains compromising and embarrassing images of Hunter Biden
One of the tweets requested to be deleted by the DNC was about Hunter smoking crack and a committing a sex act. A second tweet was a link to Hunter Biden weighing and using drugs, and another link to a Hunter Biden sex tape.
‘More to review from the Biden team,’ read one redacted email, which listed five Twitter accounts.
‘Handled these’ was the reply, which meant the accounts had been suspended.
TWITTER SHADOW BANNED CONSERVATIVES – DESPITE CLAIMING THEY DIDN’T
Political accounts that were deliberately downgraded in rankings included right-wing pundits Charlie Kirk, Dan Bongino and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
These decisions were made by Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support teams with the help of legal counsel as well as the CEO.
Bhattacharaya was downgraded after he penned an op-ed arguing that Covid-19 lockdowns were detrimental to children’s mental health, while Kirk and Bongino found themselves on search blacklists.
In 2018, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer, said: ‘We do not who shadow ban.’
The company’s head of products, Kayvon Beykpour added: ‘And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.’
Bongino said his censorship was ‘Soviet’.
FBI TOLD TWITTER TO DELETE PRO-TRUMP TWEETS AND ACCOUNTS
Staff wished to take action against supporters of the January 6 riot and of claims election fraud but were unsure how to do so: Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey was on vacation at the time.
Yoel Roth, head of trust and safety, decided to blacklist the terms ‘kraken’ and ‘stopthesteal.’
Pressure from staff reportedly led to Dorsey approving the decision to permanently suspend Donald Trump.
One Twitter staffer reported to have compared Trump to the ‘leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/death comparable to the Christchurch shooter or Hitler.’
The words used to justify Trump’s removal were that he was suspended ‘due to the risk of further incitement of violence.’
FBI TOLD TWITTER TO DELETE JOKE ACCOUNTS
The sixth batch of files which showed a comfortable relationship between the FBI and Twitter as the government agency regularly flagged seemingly innocuous tweets for removal.
Many were obvious jokes done by non-public figures with few followers.
They made jokes such as: ‘I’m a ballot counter in my state. If you’re not wearing a mask, I’m not counting your vote. #safetyfirst,’ and: ‘For every negative comment on this post I’m adding another vote for the democrats.’
TWITTER’S HEAD OF CENSORSHIP WAS WORRIED THAT THE COMPANY WAS BREAKING THE LAW BY COLLABORATING WITH THE FBI
Yoel Roth wrote to colleagues to say that he was ‘not comfortable’ with the FBI wanting written answers.
Yoel Roth, who worked as Twitter’s head of safety
Matt Taibbi, who reported the story, tweeted: ‘The idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting, given that many agencies are barred from domestic operations.’
Roth went on to remind colleagues that ‘official state propaganda is definitely a thing on Twitter,’ adding that those accounts are treated differently to clandestine government accounts.
FBI PAY TWITTER $3.5M FOR STAFF WORK – AS EX-FED AND TWITTER LAWYER PUSHES SUPPRESSION OF HUNTER LAPTOP STORY
The FBI had compensated Twitter to the tune of $3.5 million in exchange for the company doing the bidding of the agency.
In a staffer’s email to top lawyer Jim Baker, who worked at the FBI before joining Twitter, and chief legal counsel Sean Edgett, the money was said to be used for ‘law-enforcement related projects.’
The same dump showed that prior to the publication of the Hunter Biden laptop story, Baker had a private meeting with FBI officials to warn that the story could be rooted in a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of the election.
Baker noted in a message to the censorship team that all of the facts were not in, but that the article should be suppressed anyway.
Jim Baker, who before serving as deputy general counsel for Twitter held a similar role for the FBI
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