{"id":1782080,"date":"2022-12-20T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782080"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:18:30","slug":"new-twitter-files-shows-company-helped-the-military-battle-foreign-adversaries-trying-to-hurt-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-twitter-files-shows-company-helped-the-military-battle-foreign-adversaries-trying-to-hurt-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Shows Company Helped The Military Battle Foreign Adversaries Trying To Hurt U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-twitter-files-shows-company-helped-the-military-battle-foreign-adversaries-trying-to-hurt-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A journalist from a far-left news organization published the latest installment of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Twitter Files<\/a>\u201d Tuesday afternoon and sought to portray the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Military<\/a> in a negative light with the information that was released.<\/p>\n<p>The Intercept\u2019s Lee Fang called his release of \u201cThe Twitter Files,\u201d the eighth release in the series, \u201cHow Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon\u2019s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The files showed that the U.S. Department of Defense created fake non-English-speaking accounts that it used to promote information in only foreign countries, mostly in the Middle East, to counter America\u2019s enemies in the region, like Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter assisted the Pentagon\u2019s efforts by giving the network of accounts special protections so they would not get flagged as spam accounts and removed from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pentagon has used this network, which includes U.S. government-generated news portals and memes, in an effort to shape opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, [and] Kuwait,\u201d Fang noted, adding that the network \u201crelentlessly pushed narratives against Russia, China, and other foreign countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in the report gave even the slightest indication that the Pentagon\u2019s efforts ever targeted Americans or anyone in the U.S. as all the evidence that was presented said that only foreign adversaries overseas were targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the one concern that the report found was that the U.S. did not do a good job of making the accounts appear authentic, as officials from social media companies apparently warned the Pentagon that if they could detect inauthentic accounts then foreign adversaries likely could as well.<\/p>\n<p>Research from social media companies has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/06\/01\/facebook-disinformation-campaigns-globally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that the U.S. is by far the #1 target of foreign disinformation campaigns online, with Russia and Iran being the biggest culprits on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Yashar Ali responded to one of Fang\u2019s tweets that claimed that the U.S. Military\u2019s accounts \u201ctweeted frequently about U.S. military priorities in the Middle East, including promoting anti-Iran messages,\u201d by noting that is not what the messages said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear they\u2019re not anti-Iran messages,\u201d said Ali, whose family is from Iran. \u201cThey\u2019re anti-Islamic Republic messages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To be clear they\u2019re not anti-Iran messages. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re anti-Islamic Republic messages. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z8mBHGvYHi\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z8mBHGvYHi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 \u06cc\u0627\u0634\u0627\u0631 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1605300168399630337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs, a foreign policy expert who was a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy agenda, responded to the thread by noting: \u201cThis isn\u2019t obviously bad and might be very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne advantage the CCP has over the US is that the entire nation, from its \u2018influencers\u2019 to its businesses, to its academics, all serve the CCP in international relations. US media and influencers, in contrast, tend to aid narratives that undermine US interests,\u201d Heinrichs tweeted. \u201cThe U.S. is in a vicious info war with adversaries ranging from the CCP to Russia to Iran, etc. So if a major news platform like twitter is willing to cooperate w\/ the Pentagon trying to shape and bend info to serve US interests? I certainly hope they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The U.S. is in a vicious info war with adversaries ranging from the CCP to Russia to Iran, etc. So if a major news platform like twitter is willing to cooperate w\/ the Pentagon trying to shape and bend info to serve US interests? I certainly hope they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RLHeinrichs\/status\/1605316190238232578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foreign policy columnist Jason Willick responded, \u201cThis seems to be the one Twitter file that shows Twitter *supporting* the U.S., rather than subverting its constitutional principles. What\u2019s the problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut differently, it shows Twitter acting like an *American* company, for once,\u201d he added. \u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Put differently, it shows Twitter acting like an *American* company, for once. Good.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Willick (@jawillick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jawillick\/status\/1605318237540864000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist from a far-left news organization published the latest installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d Tuesday afternoon and sought to portray the U.S. Military in a negative light with the information that was released. 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