NOURNEWS - Three days ago, the online newspaper "Intercept" announced the extensive cooperation of Twitter with the Pentagon against other countries, based on the investigation of this media's reporter Li Fang, which was conducted using internal Twitter documents.
According to this report; Twitter has cooperated with the Pentagon to boost media propaganda about US military activities in West Asia and has allowed fake accounts to publish pro-American narratives despite promises to stop government influence campaigns.
As the Intercept reporter's research shows; Twitter has secretly created a special whitelist of accounts run by the CENTCOM command, allowing these accounts to be excluded from being identified as spam and fake accounts.
This happened in 2017 and after the American military officials asked the management of Twitter to allow more viewing of 52 Arabic language accounts for the widespread publication of specific messages.
The point is; Since then, the accounts considered by the CENTCOM command have published false and deceptive content about Pentagon projects, including developments in Iran, support for the aggression of the Saudi-UAE coalition in Yemen, and claims about the extraordinary accuracy of American drone strikes.
Although Li Fang quoted a Twitter official in a tweet claiming that Twitter managers were deceived, several documents show that Twitter's senior managers were well aware of the vast network of fake accounts and covert propaganda of the US Department of Defense, but still did not suspend them.
Intercept's report about Twitter's cooperation with the Pentagon, along with other documents published by "Elon Musk", the new owner of Twitter, regarding the illegal activities of this social network, including documents related to the case of "Hunter Biden", the son of Joe Biden, and the issue of the last presidential election in the United States, shows the widespread abuse of the trust of Twitter users by the US government.
On the other hand; The monitoring and data mining of the anti-Iranian content produced and published on Twitter during at least the last three months, while confirming the Intercept report regarding the extensive cooperation of Twitter with the Pentagon against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was carried out with the aim of creating insecurity, disturbance and subversion in the country, showed the extensive involvement of the United States government in Iran's internal affairs and the leadership of a full-scale hybrid war against the Iranian nation.
The aforementioned observation and evaluation clearly shows that about 90% of the anti-Iranian content, centered on the issue of riots, was published by organized robotic and semi-robotic platforms alone, and a significant contribution to spreading lies, pumping distorted news and violent content, and heating related hashtags have been conducted by these platforms.
This type of behavior on the part of Western social networks, which is unprecedented not only in Iran but also in other target countries, including West Asia, in recent years, shows the inherent dependence of these networks on the military-intelligence services of the ruling regime, and it is indicative of the fact that under the guise of freedom of expression and free circulation of information, these platforms have practically become soft tools of dominating powers in the field of cognitive wars, or to be more precise, they have been designed and produced with this purpose in mind.
The point is; the contradictory behaviors and double standards of these mass communication platforms have gradually led their users to the conclusion that these media tools are only a means to achieve the goals and political ambitions of the dominating powers and they can no longer be trusted.
Maybe that's why Elon Musk is trying to regain the social capital of Twitter by disclosing some documents to restore its credibility among global users, although the reason for this behavior is unlikely to be popular with the public because of his support for the ultra-conservative current in the United States political sphere.
BY: Pooya Mirzaei
NOURNEWS