Jack Dorsey Allowed US Government To Use Twitter As Propaganda Arm

A new batch of Twitter Files have been released showing that the United States got permission from the platform to use it to spread propaganda. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A new batch of Twitter files have been released showing that the United States got permission from the platform to use it to spread propaganda. Okay. Now first of all, these stories are coming out by an organization that both you and I really, really think is critically important, it's The Intercept.

Yep.

And you're dealing with reporters like Lee Fang, who is just, I mean, the, this guy ought wear pol, he, he ought to win Pulitzers left and right. But, you know, he doesn't because he's working with social media. So I look at this story and it's not just government. We're talking about the spook industry. We're talking about the CIA, FBI, the DO, the Department of Defense using this vehicle for sheer propaganda. And now we know it. Before it was just, well, maybe they are. No, they are.

Right. What Lee Fang uncovered here in this new batch of Twitter files, which to me the first batch is a, meh, I don't really care.

I agree.

This is a big one.

Yeah.

This is kind of, you should have led with this because this is important.

I know, I totally agree.

But what he found was these emails from the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, the CIA saying, hey, Twitter, uh, you, you seem to have throttled this account here. You know, and they'd give them normal sounding names and they said, listen, this, this is actually what we use to, you know, spread lies about these other countries.

Yeah.

So we're gonna need you to go ahead and whitelist all these accounts. And they would send a big ol' list.

Well explain, explain the whitelist thing. You know, they got the blacklist and they got the white. What's the whitelist?

The whitelist means you can pretty much do whatever you want.

Whatever you want.

You can say whatever you want and Twitter is not going to, they're not gonna throttle you. They're not gonna shadow ban, and they're not gonna ban you at all. They're gonna let you do whatever it is you need to do because according to the government, look, this isn't our national interest.

Mm-hmm.

We need to convince the people in Iraq that Iran is about to attack them at any given moment. And, and that's one of the things.

Well, I mean, it's crazy stories. Like they, they, it's CENTCOM. CENTCOM, explain CENTCOM to the viewers, please.

Yeah. That is the centralized command center, basically, of the entire, not just defense, but I guess intelligence apparatus in the United States.

Yeah. It's, it is, it's the center of the spook industry.

It's the hub.

Yeah. It is the hub of the spook industry. And now, okay. First on so many levels, first of all, we know now the CIA was directly involved with this. Okay. We know that after the Church Hearings, it was made very clear the CIA, CIA should have no, not, they shouldn't touch domestic politics at all. Jack Dorsey obviously knew exactly what was going on. It had been going on for, what, five years?

Yeah.

I mean, there's clear.

A long, long time.

There's, there's a five year history that we know about just by what's, what's showing up. But you see the problem here. I, I don't know how anybody listening to this story says, oh, it's okay. It's okay if government creates propaganda. It's the same thing, if you remember, that they went after the Russians about. The Russians are creating propaganda. Well, they spent $175,000 creating propaganda. Here, this is a limitless budget coming directly from the US government that says, we want to tell a story the way we want to tell the story. We want to, we want to gin up interest in Syria. We wanna make people mad about Ukraine. We wanna make sure that Venezuela is something we talk about all the time. We want to create this centered message by way of your site, Jack Dorsey, and Jack Dorsey said, okay.

We, we also want to control the narrative about what's happening in Yemen too.

Good point.