{"id":3210,"date":"2023-01-03T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:24:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:24:39","slug":"twitter-pushed-the-pentagons-middle-east-war-propaganda-and-both-will-likely-get-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Twitter pushed the Pentagon\u2019s Middle East war propaganda, and both will likely get away with it<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media platform has been aiding the US Department of Defense in pushing its agenda through fake accounts<\/p>\n<p>Information continues to roll out about how Twitter knowingly became a conduit for US propaganda efforts abroad that only serve to produce more violence and chaos. Sadly, this news has seemingly been greeted with a collective yawn by both the US corporate press and the American public.<br \/>\nA recent article by The Intercept details how Twitter facilitated efforts by US Central Command (CENTCOM), a division of the US Defense Department, to spread propaganda, particularly in and about the Middle East, using fake accounts posing as private individuals in the region.<br \/>\nThese accounts were given special treatment by Twitter, which accorded them the same privileges as \u2018blue-checked\u2019 verified accounts, which, as The Intercept article describes,\u00a0\u201cwould have bestowed a number of advantages, such as invulnerability to algorithmic bots that flag accounts for spam or abuse, as well as other strikes that lead to decreased visibility or suspension.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd, of course, this was being done at a time when Twitter was deleting hundreds of accounts it viewed as associated with the Russian government and designating other such accounts as \u201cRussian-state affiliated media\u201d\u00a0even when, as in the case of some of my friends, such as Fiorella Isabel, these accounts were of private individuals writing in their own, personal capacity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/568943-twitter-pushed-pentagon-propaganda\/\">Rt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media platform has been aiding the US Department of Defense in pushing its agenda through fake accounts Information continues to roll out about how Twitter knowingly became a conduit for US propaganda efforts abroad that only serve to produce more violence and chaos. Sadly, this news has seemingly been greeted with a collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3348,3346,3347,619,3349,2948,1500,1161,1211],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abetment","tag-department-of-defense","tag-fake-accounts","tag-like","tag-middle-east-wars","tag-news-media","tag-pentagon","tag-she","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7565,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/7565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}