Gregory's ServerThis is horrible. Reporting from Reuters revealed that the US military ran disinformation campaigns, including creating fake social media accounts, to sow doubt in the quality of COVID vaccines, masks, and tests produced by other countries.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
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  @anarchic_teapot @luckytran They serve and protect the Corporate States pf America.   @luckytran On Trump’s watch, right? One assumes this was to protect American corporate profits? Follow the money. Who paid whom (corruption) to make that happen? (This is after getting past the macabre consequences).  @obviousdwest @luckytran "The U.S. military’s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021" Unacceptable no matter who was in charge of the government.  @michael_w_busch @obviousdwest @luckytran @Raccoon @michael_w_busch @obviousdwest @luckytran Given the massive shitshow he inherited, Biden may not have even known it was happening until he was a few months into the job. @textualdeviance @Raccoon @obviousdwest @luckytran Per the Reuters piece, the Biden administration did shut this outrage down when they were told about it. But the general who Reuters reports as having ordered the operation, Jonathan Braga, is still in the US military - and was promoted in 2021 August. @michael_w_busch @textualdeviance @Raccoon @obviousdwest @luckytran Some part of me wants to give that guy a pass based on the Milgram experiment but no. 'Just following orders' has limits. Our nation wasn't in immediate danger and that kind of obedience is not good for democracy.  @Raccoon @michael_w_busch @obviousdwest @luckytran The Biden admin terminated the program "by edict", which I assume means executive order, in spring 2021. The pentagon did not rush to pull the plug. @michael_w_busch @obviousdwest @luckytran I read 'spring 2021' either way, within a few months of Biden taking office.   @luckytran It’s one thing if they actually tested masks and identified brands of masks that were deficient or counterfeit and didn’t meet the standards printed on them but to do it in general just to discredit masks is irresponsible. And it erodes trust in leadership. A sick military is vulnerable: why didn’t they understand that? @luckytran What I am curious about is if fact checkers on such social media propaganda will intercept such misinformation. If not, then what else do they intentionally allow to pass?  @DamonGang @luckytran Did you read the article? And if the fact checkers can work freely and detect it, obviously they can catch it? Who should force them to let it pass, just don't make stupid conspiracy theories… the article explains very well what happened. At the end it even mentions a fact checking org… @rugk @luckytran "Between January 2020 and November 2022, over 150 emails were exchanged between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth" ... "in a significant number of instances, the agency allegedly demanded that Twitter crack down on election ‘misinformation,..." https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-constant-contact-twitter-trust-223133334.html @luckytran This isn't the first indication we've heard of this though, is it?  @luckytran "The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort..." Of course, it started under Spanky. @luckytran so...while the governments of the world were publicly, ostensibly promoting public health, they were in fact secretly trying to destroy it in their competitors' (and allies') countries. Nice.   @luckytran - who was the commander and chief tho? - why - savdis ? Dasani ? ~ was it pvtin? may as well have been . . .  @luckytran " Stevee Bann0n report to prison asap - get er' done.. : P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica yo vimeo com search ' from rvssia with hate ' riddle me that .  @luckytran I’d like to say this was unprecedented, shocking, and unconscionable, but it’s not. It’s what I’ve long suspected all along and sacrificing countless people’s lives for the sake of winning a geopolitical PR campaign is perfectly in line with what I’ve now come to expect from the US. The USA never accepted The Hague in the first place. Trump will never be tried there, neither will any other US American. |
@luckytran The only thing that surprises me is that it was the military. Had the usual suspects been defunded?