By R. Cort Kirkwood
Twitter not only was the FBI’s willing handmaiden in censorship, but also helped the U.S. Defense Department manage its propaganda and psychological warfare operations.
Twitter did so, journalist Lee Fang explained in Part 8 of the Twitter Files, despite its long-standing claim that it stopped governments from using the platform to manipulate the public.
Along with the revelation in Part 7 of the files about FBI payments to Twitter for censorship, the latest raises the question of just how tightly the military and federal law enforcement controlled the platform and its operations.
