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Twitter Files Part 6: TWITTER AIDED THE PENTAGON IN IT'S COVERT ONLINE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: New Twitter files have been dropped. And what we're learning
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  Speaker 1: is this, If you and the media report something that
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Post likes, they call you a journalist. But
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  Speaker 1: if you report something like the Twitter files that they
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  Speaker 1: don't like, the Washington Post will then label you as
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  Speaker 1: a conservative journalist. I'll give you an example. The same
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  Speaker 1: journalists who are helping expose the Twitter files are now
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  Speaker 1: being attacked by their own colleagues, claiming they're right wing extremists.
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  Speaker 1: They're conservative journalists, which is just not true. There's a
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  Speaker 1: headline Washington Post back in twenty seventeen, a article by
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  Speaker 1: like a crew. It does whatever they want to do.
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  Speaker 1: gut wrenching account of the death and life of Eric Garner,
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  Speaker 1: that's how they described journalists. Matt Tabe. He was a
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  Speaker 1: journalist who did an amazing job with a gut wrenching
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  Speaker 1: account of the death and life of Eric Garner. So
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  Speaker 1: then he was a hardcore journalist. He was a renowned journalist.
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  Speaker 1: He was above above reproach journalists right. What happens when
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  Speaker 1: my taby releases the Twitter files. Here's the headline from
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  Speaker 1: the same Washington Post quote. As head of Trust and
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  Speaker 1: Safety at Twitter, Roth was involved in many of the
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  Speaker 1: platform's decisions about what posts to remove and what accounts
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  Speaker 1: to suspend. His communications with other Twitter officials have been
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  Speaker 1: posted in recent day days as part of what must
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  Speaker 1: calls a Twitter files, a series of tweets you ready
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  Speaker 1: by conservative journalists Matt Tabe and Barry Weiss. So, if
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  Speaker 1: you report something the Washington Post likes, you're a journalist.
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  Speaker 1: If you report something Washington Post doesn't like, you're a
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  Speaker 1: conservative journalist. That's now what they're doing now. The reason
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  Speaker 1: why I bring this up is because they're now getting
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  Speaker 1: very scared over what's actually being exposed here. The newest
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  Speaker 1: Twitter files that dropped are unbelievable. We now know that
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  Speaker 1: the FBI just a month ago was actually asking Twitter
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  Speaker 1: for the location information on a bunch of Twitter users.
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  Speaker 1: Is the FBI asking for this, including the conservative news
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  Speaker 1: site RSB network. The FBI asked Twitter to voluntarily provide
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  Speaker 1: info and helpful suggests helpfully suggests these users violated terms
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  Speaker 1: of service so you could get rid of them, a
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  Speaker 1: big long list, right, this coming in from the FBI. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: these are the guys. We need to know where they are.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us their locations? Oh and also, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, can you please shut them down? This was
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  Speaker 1: just a month ago because of terms of service violations.
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  Speaker 1: This internal email we now have access to from November fifth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, the FBI's National Election Command Post, which compiles
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  Speaker 1: and sends on complaints, sent the San Francisco Field office
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  Speaker 1: a long list of accounts that quote may warrant additional action.
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  Speaker 1: And then they wanted to know like, hey, who's doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Like where are they? Can you just give us locations?
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  Speaker 1: And they gave this to Twitter. This is just a
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  Speaker 1: month ago. We also now know that from the newest
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  Speaker 1: Twitter files that have been released. Something else, a very
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  Speaker 1: shocking revelation that the United States government, Okay, the United
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  Speaker 1: States government has now decided that they want to do
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  Speaker 1: propaganda influencing on our government and regimes around the world.
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  Speaker 1: There was an influence campaign, an influence campaign to get
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  Speaker 1: you to like or dislike, or support or not support
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  Speaker 1: certain conflicts around the world. I'll give you a real
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  Speaker 1: day example. Apparently, the Pentagon has been working relentlessly to
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  Speaker 1: put up propaganda accounts, propaganda accounts of deep fake individuals,
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  Speaker 1: meaning not real people that they are running. This new
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  Speaker 1: report identified accounts that Twitter knew were fake. Twitter knew
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  Speaker 1: they were being run by Sentcom and the Pentagon, and
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon and Sentcom actually asked Twitter to quote white
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  Speaker 1: List accounts in an email to Twitter in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Twitter then said, sure they knew. Twitter knew the accounts
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  Speaker 1: were fake, they knew they were government propaganda accounts, and
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  Speaker 1: they did it anyway. We also know that those accounts
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  Speaker 1: were helping you get excited about certain things. Causes and
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  Speaker 1: wars Zelenski getting all this money right now, there's a
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  Speaker 1: very good chance, I'd say there's one hundred percent chance,
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  Speaker 1: based on now what we know, that the government is
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  Speaker 1: using deep fake accounts to support the government's propaganda to
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  Speaker 1: get you to support us sending billions and billions and
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars to one of the most corrupt governments
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  Speaker 1: in the world in Ukraine. In fact, Twitter's communication team
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  Speaker 1: was closely in touch with reporters working to minimize Twitter's role.
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  Speaker 1: When the Washington Post reported on the scandal, Twitter officials
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  Speaker 1: actually congratulate each other's and in eternal emails and messages
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  Speaker 1: because the story quote didn't mention any Twitter employees and
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  Speaker 1: focus largely on the Pentagon running a deep state operation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all this information came out, Leefang, who is the one
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  Speaker 1: that released these Twitter files, wrote an article for The Intercept,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what the headline read. Twitter aided the
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon in its covert online propaganda campaign that you were
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  Speaker 1: paying for. Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted Pentagon account sent
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  Speaker 1: accounts that were then used to run its online influence
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  Speaker 1: pedaling campaign in the US and abroad. Twitter executives lied
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  Speaker 1: to Congress, by the way. They claimed for years that
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  Speaker 1: the company makes a concerted effort to detect and thwart
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  Speaker 1: quote government back covert propaganda campaigns on its platform. That
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  Speaker 1: was a lie. They lied to Congress Behind the scenes, however,
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  Speaker 1: the social networking giant provided direct approval an internal protection
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  Speaker 1: for the US military's network. I mean, this is like
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  Speaker 1: a web of fake accounts all over the world being
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  Speaker 1: run by the Pentagon. They had a network of social
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  Speaker 1: media accounts and online deep fake individuals personas, and they
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  Speaker 1: even the government. The Pentagon was directly asking Twitter to
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  Speaker 1: whitelist a batch of account to the request of the government,
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  Speaker 1: meaning we're telling you they're fake, but we need you
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  Speaker 1: to let us have these propaganda accounts so that we
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  Speaker 1: can push out propaganda that will influence the minds of
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  Speaker 1: not just American citizens, but others around the world. Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, wasn't the only one doing this. We
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  Speaker 1: now know from the investigative report that has come out
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  Speaker 1: on this that Facebook was also doing it. We would
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  Speaker 1: assume Google was also doing it in YouTube. The Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: has used this network for years, which includes US government
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  Speaker 1: generated news portals and memes in an effort to shape
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  Speaker 1: the opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and beyond. The
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  Speaker 1: accounts and question started out openly affiliated with US governments,
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  Speaker 1: but then the Pentagon appeared to shift tactics that began
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  Speaker 1: concealing its affiliation with some of these accounts, a move
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  Speaker 1: towards a type of intentional platform manipulation. The Twitter had
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  Speaker 1: publicly opposed and testified to Congress that they were shut
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  Speaker 1: down all over the world. Though Twitter executives maintain awareness
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  Speaker 1: of the accounts, they did not shut them down. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they let them remain active for years while they were
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  Speaker 1: important to the quote cause. In fact, some of these accounts,
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  Speaker 1: these fake accounts, remain active right now as we speak,
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  Speaker 1: and the revelations are buried in the archives of Twitter
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  Speaker 1: emails and internal tools, to which the Intercept was gret
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  Speaker 1: An access for a brief period last week, alongside a
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  Speaker 1: handful of other writers and reporters. Following Elon Must's purchase
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  Speaker 1: of Twitter, the billionaire started giving access to company documents,
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  Speaker 1: saying in a Twitter space that the general idea is
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  Speaker 1: to surface anything bad Twitter had done in the past.
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  Speaker 1: The files, which included records generated under must ownership, provided unprecedented,
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  Speaker 1: if in complete, insight into decision making within a major
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  Speaker 1: social media company. Twitter did not provide unfitter access to
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  Speaker 1: company information. Rather, for three days last week, they allowed
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  Speaker 1: the reporter to make requests without restrictions that were then
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled on my behalf by an attorney, meaning that the
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  Speaker 1: search results may not have been exhaustive. I did not
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  Speaker 1: agree to any conditions governing the use of the documents,
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  Speaker 1: and I made efforts to authenticate and contextualize the documents
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  Speaker 1: through further reporting. The redactions and the embedded documents in
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  Speaker 1: the story were done by the intercept to protect privacy,
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  Speaker 1: not Twitter. And what we know is that Twitter the
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  Speaker 1: direct assistants Twitter provided to the Pentagon goes back at
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  Speaker 1: least five years. In July of twenty seventeen, there was
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  Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Nathaniel Caller at the
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  Speaker 1: time an official working with a US Central Command also
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  Speaker 1: known as SITCOM, a division of the Defense Department, and
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  Speaker 1: Nathaniel emailed a Twitter representative with the company's public policy
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  Speaker 1: team with a request to approve the verification of one
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  Speaker 1: account and white lists a list of AIRB language accounts
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  Speaker 1: we used to amplify quote certain messages. So this is
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  Speaker 1: propaganda and Twitter said yes. The worst part of all
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  Speaker 1: this is not just the Pidagon was doing this, it's
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you were paying for this to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We now know that the FBI was actually paying Twitter
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  Speaker 1: three point four million dollars to actually help sensor Americans
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  Speaker 1: when they didn't like what you were saying. That was
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  Speaker 1: happening as well. Miranda Divine went on Fox to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this part seven of Twitter Files that reveals the
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  Speaker 1: FBI's influence over what was happening and what you were saying.
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  Speaker 1: Today's New York postcover calling the tech giant a quote
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  Speaker 1: bird in the hand. Miranda Divine is a columnist for
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  Speaker 1: the Postboxes contributed Miranda, good morning to you and thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your time. I just wonder mind, folks, the
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  Speaker 1: FBI have a laptop for about a year, they knew
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  Speaker 1: that it was real. And you say the FBI was
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  Speaker 1: grooming Twitter employees to recognize your laptop story. How so
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  Speaker 1: that's right, Bill and Dana. It was pretty clear that
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  Speaker 1: there was really a psychological operation being conducted against Twitter
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  Speaker 1: executives by the FBI, so that when our story came
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  Speaker 1: up in October of twenty twenty, that they would recognize
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  Speaker 1: it immediately as a Russian hack and leak operation because
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  Speaker 1: they'd been warned for weeks by FBI exactly what to
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  Speaker 1: look for, in fact, to look for this operation in October,
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  Speaker 1: and that it would involve Hunter Biden. And remember that
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  Speaker 1: the FBI was paying Twitter three point four million dollars
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  Speaker 1: they gave them to help censor Americans, and particularly our
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  Speaker 1: story three weeks before the election currents and Tlou twittered this,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I read this breathless Twitter file supplemental from
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  Speaker 1: aut tub so you don't have to and here's the sum.
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  Speaker 1: I mean usen to this. The FBI was paying Twitter
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  Speaker 1: three point four million to help censor Americans. So they're
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  Speaker 1: pushing out propaganda, they're censoring Americans, and they're doing all
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  Speaker 1: of this with your tax dollars. Now you put that
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  Speaker 1: in comparison to what we were being told in public.
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  Speaker 1: And Twitter said to Congress under oath, oh, we would
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  Speaker 1: never allow governments to have accounts that we knew about,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to police it. That was putting out propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: So what do the emails say to Twitter asking to
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  Speaker 1: whitelist some of these fake accounts from the Pentagon And
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  Speaker 1: you're paying for people to run these fake accounts. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: we've got some accounts that are not indexing on hashtags.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps they were flagged as bots, wrote sent com. A
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  Speaker 1: few of these had built a real following, and we
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  Speaker 1: hope to salvage. Clara added that he was happy to
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  Speaker 1: provide more paperwork from his office or SOCOM, the acronym
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  Speaker 1: for the US Special Operations Command. This is an email
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  Speaker 1: going to Twitter top level Twitter. At the time, it
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  Speaker 1: built an expanded abuse detection system aimed in part towards
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  Speaker 1: flagging malicious activity related to the Islamic State and other
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  Speaker 1: terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East. As an indirect
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  Speaker 1: consequence of these efforts, one former Twitter employee explained to
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  Speaker 1: the Intercept accounts controlled by the military that were frequently
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  Speaker 1: engaged with extremist groups for being automatically flagged the spam.
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  Speaker 1: The former employee, who was involved with a white listing
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  Speaker 1: of SCOM accounts, spoke with the Intercept and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this was happening. In an email, cars sent a spreadsheet
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  Speaker 1: in fact, with fifty two fake accounts US government was using.
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  Speaker 1: He asked for a priority service for six of those accounts,
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  Speaker 1: including an account used to broadcast announcements about US drone
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  Speaker 1: strikes and Yemen around the same time. They said it
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  Speaker 1: was important that these accounts stay up. Now guess what's happened.
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  Speaker 1: They've been deleted. They emphasize that the US strung strike
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  Speaker 1: one of these channels, for example, or one of these
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  Speaker 1: accounts were accurate and killed terrorists, not civilians, and promoted
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  Speaker 1: the US and Saudi backed assault on the rebels in
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  Speaker 1: the country. Other accounts on the list were focused on
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  Speaker 1: promoting US supported militias in Syria and anti Iran messages
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  Speaker 1: in Iraq. One account discussed legal issues in Kuwait. The
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  Speaker 1: many accountsmen focused on one topic area, others moved from
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  Speaker 1: topic to topic of propaganda. For instance, another account, one
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  Speaker 1: of the sitcom's top accounts, shifted from messaging around drone
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  Speaker 1: strikes in Yemen in seventeen to the Syrian government's focused
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  Speaker 1: communications this year. On the same day that sitcom sent
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  Speaker 1: its requests, members of Twitter site Integrity team went into
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  Speaker 1: an internal company system used for managing the reach of
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  Speaker 1: various users and applied to special exemption tag to the accounts.
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  Speaker 1: The internal logs now show. One engineer, who asked not
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  Speaker 1: to be named because he was not authorized to speak
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  Speaker 1: to the media, said that he had never seen this
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  Speaker 1: type of tag before, but upon close inspection, said that
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  Speaker 1: the effect of the whitelist tag essentially gave the accounts
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  Speaker 1: the privileges of Twitter verification without a visible blue check mark,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a blue check mark excuse me. Twitter verification would have
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  Speaker 1: bestowed a number of advantages such as involuntarily to excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: an invulnerability to algorithm bots that flag accounts or spam
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  Speaker 1: or abuse, as well as other strikes that lead to
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  Speaker 1: decrease visibility, visibility or suspension. Now, these Twitter accounts, all
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  Speaker 1: of them that were whitelisted by Twitter, were done so
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  Speaker 1: at the behests of the US government for propaganda reasons.
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  Speaker 1: There were also Arabic language accounts twitting on relevant security issues.
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  Speaker 1: They said, yeah, well whitelist those as well, and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to know the where some accounts that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: own were actually tweeting from the Internet archives. I've also
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  Speaker 1: found that there was a lot of history on these accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Several accounts initially listed themselves as US government accounts and
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  Speaker 1: their bios, but after being whitelisted, shed any disclosure that
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  Speaker 1: they were affiliated with the military, imposed as ordinary users.
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  Speaker 1: This appears aligned with a major report published in August
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  Speaker 1: by online security researchers affiliated with the Stanford Internet Observatory.
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  Speaker 1: They reported on thousands of accounts that they suspected to
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  Speaker 1: be part of a state backed information operation, many of
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  Speaker 1: which used human faces deep fakes generated by artificial intelligence,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a practice also known as well again deep fakes. That's
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  Speaker 1: what your tax dollars were going towards. The researchers connected
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  Speaker 1: these accounts with a vast online ecosystem that included fake
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  Speaker 1: news websites, meme accounts on Telegram and Facebook, and online
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  Speaker 1: personalities that echoed at Pentagon messages, often without disclosure of
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  Speaker 1: affiliation with the US military. Some of the accounts accused
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  Speaker 1: i Ran of threatening Iraq's water security and flooding the
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  Speaker 1: country with crystal math, while others promoted allegations that Iran
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  Speaker 1: was harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees. Stanford report did
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  Speaker 1: not definitively tie the sham accounts to Sentcome or provide
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  Speaker 1: a complete list of Twitter accounts. The emails obtained by
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  Speaker 1: the Intercept show that the creation of at least one
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  Speaker 1: of these accounts was directly affiliated with the Pentagon quote.
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  Speaker 1: It's deeply concerning if the Pentagon is working to shape
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  Speaker 1: public opinion about our military's role abroad, even worse in
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: private companies, even worse if private companies are helping to
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  Speaker 1: conceal it. That's exactly backly what Twitter was doing, and
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• 20:07
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  Speaker 1: stand up how Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy actually stated finally
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  Speaker 1: on TV that the FBI should be shouldn't be blindly
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  Speaker 1: funded given the behavior revealed in the Twitter files, and
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  Speaker 1: the agency's budget shouldn't increase until after the agency is reformed.
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy said, think about everything we're learning now that the
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  Speaker 1: FBI spent at Twitter, at Facebook, at Google. Why would
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  Speaker 1: we increase any funding there until we can have our
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  Speaker 1: church style hearings to look at the FBI to reform
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  Speaker 1: the FBI. We're getting more information every day. Why would
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  Speaker 1: we blindly fund them when we're looking to when we're
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  Speaker 1: looking overall through the year, why would we have Why
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't we have a check and balance here? Why couldn't
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  Speaker 1: we bring them in. Why couldn't we look at the
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  Speaker 1: intel the committee that signed that letter and have some
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  Speaker 1: subpoenas going forward where we have more information for the
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  Speaker 1: American taxpayer to know that their money isn't being spent
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  Speaker 1: on things like Twitter. Right, accountability is good, it should
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  Speaker 1: be good. I think we can all agree it's important
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  Speaker 1: that we have accountability. So let's go back to the
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  Speaker 1: mainstream media. They're covering this, not ABCNBCCBS, none of them.
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  Speaker 1: Is it big story that they were using deep fake
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  Speaker 1: photos to obscure and to manipulate your mind on different things.
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  Speaker 1: I got to go back to Ukraine on this one.
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  Speaker 1: It is clear that the government is trying to influence
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  Speaker 1: you on Ukraine, trying to tell you that we need
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  Speaker 1: to be sending the money to Ukraine, not asking any
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  Speaker 1: real questions about what's actually going on in Ukraine. GOP
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  Speaker 1: Representative James Comer he says he wants to cut off
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  Speaker 1: FBI funding over the Twitter files, knowing just how shady
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  Speaker 1: our government is. The FBI was never granted the authority
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  Speaker 1: to create any type of disinformation task force that police
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  Speaker 1: the social media sites. Now, this we know with Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: We've heard similar stories from Zuckerberg. Who knows what went
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  Speaker 1: on at YouTube and Google. This isn't an agency that's
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  Speaker 1: out of control. And the most frustrating thing for me
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  Speaker 1: right now, Maria is the fact that in this Omnimus
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  Speaker 1: bill there's increased funding for the FBI, plus a one
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  Speaker 1: point seven five billion dollars headquarters facility for the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we cut everything off? I agree with him.
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  Speaker 1: If this is how you're spending the dollars, if this
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  Speaker 1: is how the tax money is being spent, you should
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  Speaker 1: halt everything. Kamala Harris did come out saying something that's
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  Speaker 1: very weird. Vice President on elon Mosk and Twitter. This
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  Speaker 1: is what she said yesterday. So what I would say
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  Speaker 1: about any social media site is this would I fully
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  Speaker 1: expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate
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  Speaker 1: and work with us who are concerned about national security,
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  Speaker 1: concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy, to do everything
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  Speaker 1: in their power to ensure that there is not a
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  Speaker 1: manipulation that is allowed or overlooked, that is done with
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  Speaker 1: the intention of upending the security of our democracy and
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  Speaker 1: our nation. Those are the things that concerned me most
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  Speaker 1: of all. Those are the things that concerned me most
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  Speaker 1: of all. That's your official response from Kamala Harris. Now right,
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  Speaker 1: big tech leaders should help us secure democracy in our nation.
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  Speaker 1: She's saying, I got your back. You guys keep censoring
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  Speaker 1: and silencing conservatives, You keep shutting down conservatives, you keep
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  Speaker 1: doing all of this. But these Twitter Files Part eight
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  Speaker 1: shows that there was a psychological operation coordinated between Twitter
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  Speaker 1: and the Pentagon and Sincom, and you paid for this
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  Speaker 1: documents detailed military influence operations. Ret Baar on Fox set
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  Speaker 1: it this way. We're getting a new batch of internal
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  Speaker 1: documents from Twitter tonight. This is the eighth such release
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  Speaker 1: of the so called Twitter Files, is the second in
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  Speaker 1: as many days showing the inner workings of the social
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  Speaker 1: media giant and the interactions with the US government. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Wanta Griff Jenkins tells us what is in today's edition,
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  Speaker 1: Getting the Griff Good Evening. Brett Tonight's drop is an
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  Speaker 1: inside look at the relationship between Twitter and the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 1: Investigative journalist Lee Fang suggests the social media platform quote
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  Speaker 1: quietly aided the Pentagon's covert online psyop campaign in a
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  Speaker 1: series of twenty one posts, Fang details how deep the
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  Speaker 1: coordination went between the two entities. Fang highlighting Twitter's pledge
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  Speaker 1: and congressional testimony promising to shut down all state backed
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  Speaker 1: covert operations, then reveals but behind the scenes, Twitter gave
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  Speaker 1: approval and special protection to the US military's online psychological
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  Speaker 1: influence opts. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used to
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  Speaker 1: covert identities, Twitter did not suspend any for around two
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  Speaker 1: years or more, some remain active. The documentation dates back
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  Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen bread when Scom sent Twitter list of
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  Speaker 1: fifty two Arab language accounts used to amplify messages about
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  Speaker 1: US military priorities in the Middle East. Noting the same
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  Speaker 1: day Sycom sent the letter, Twitter officials used a tool
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  Speaker 1: to grant a special white list tag that essentially provides
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  Speaker 1: verification status to the accounts without the blue check, meaning
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  Speaker 1: their exempt from spam abuse flags, more visible, likely to
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  Speaker 1: trend on hashtags than also says some Twitter officials felt deceived,
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  Speaker 1: but added this part, saying still many emails from throughout
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty show that high level Twitter executives were well
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  Speaker 1: aware of DoD's vast network of fake accounts and covert
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  Speaker 1: propaganda and did not suspend the accounts. It was a
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  Speaker 1: network that pushed narratives against Iran, Russia, China, and other
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  Speaker 1: foreign countries, ultimately tweeting as recently as May of this year.
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  Speaker 1: According to Lee Fang and Tonight Brett, we reached out
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  Speaker 1: to the Pentagon for comment they referred as strictly to Sitcom.
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  Speaker 1: We have not yet heard back, Brett. So if you
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  Speaker 1: just take a big step back and you look at this,
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  Speaker 1: not only was our government working with all of these
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  Speaker 1: social media companies to shut down in silence any account
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  Speaker 1: they didn't like, big or small. They were shadow banning
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  Speaker 1: people they didn't like, but they were also then using
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  Speaker 1: your tax dollars to push out propaganda from deep fake
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  Speaker 1: accounts of human beings that didn't exist under the disguise
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  Speaker 1: other them being like authentic people. That's what they did
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  Speaker 1: the entire time, and everybody knows it. It's out there now.
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  Speaker 1: ABCNBC and CBS refusing to talk about any of this,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: ABC NBC and CBS refusing to tell you what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. ABC, NBC and CBS. No, we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to mention it, because why would we do such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Be too damaging, and they are doing this on a
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  Speaker 1: who knows what other issues. I'm sure that the Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: is doing this right now in Ukraine. I have no
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: doubt they're doing this with Ukraine. They want you to
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  Speaker 1: support the war in Ukraine against Russia. They want you
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  Speaker 1: to hate Russia. They want you to believe that Russia
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  Speaker 1: must be fought and all this money needs to go
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to this war. And they're gonna spend this money, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: they're gonna buy Ammo, and they're gonna buy weapons, and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for it, and a lot of it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: going to be embezzled in the corrupt country of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: And Zelenski is one of those. And they're gonna bring
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Zelenski into the White House and they're gonna push this
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  Speaker 1: propaganda and they're gonna want to and they're gonna put
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: out the propaganda so that you will, you know, basically
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  Speaker 1: feel sorry for them in Ukraine and say, yes, we
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: must send more money, that you'll support the war in Ukraine.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: And how much of this information is actually propaganda from
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: our government? What I do know now about our deep state,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: what I do know about SCOM, what I do know
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  Speaker 1: about the CIA is that they are involved in corruption
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  Speaker 1: at levels you couldn't even imagine to influence your opinion
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