Twitter has worked with the Pentagon to heighten propaganda about the United States military’s activities in the Middle East, to carry out a covert online propaganda and influence campaign for at least the last five years.
It has also allowed fake accounts to push pro-US narratives despite pledging to shut down covert state-run influence campaigns, an investigation based on Twitter’s internal files revealed on December 20.
Twitter has verified and “whitelisted” accounts affiliated with US Central Command in a bid to shape public opinion in countries including Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait at the behest of the US military, according to the investigation by Lee Fang, a reporter with The Intercept.
Twitter executives have long claimed that the company targets and deletes secretly operated government accounts that try to spread favorable geopolitical narratives.
