Twitter files #8
Here’s the latest Twitter files drop.
I’ll let Ace tackle this one:
This is the least interesting tranche to me or any other conservative. It seems to be published chiefly to interest lefties…
The new disclosures detail Twitter’s active participation in CENTCOM/Pentagon propaganda efforts against Iran, China, Russia, and other miscreants.
While I don’t object to propagandizing against foreign nations, it must be remembered that this propaganda is read by US citizens, too, so we are among the first to be infected by US-government-created disinformation…
I speak specifically about lies the US government is spreading via covert accounts maintained by US government employees claiming that US drone strikes are perfect and kill only terrorists, and not children and civilians like you might hear from other sources.
I always assumed that no one really believes that sort of news anymore, particularly since that horrible drone strike around the time of Biden’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan. You may remember it; the one that killed 10 civilians, 7 of them children. You can refresh your memory here.
I’m old enough to remember when Lefties actually cared about drone strikes killing civilians and our government lying about it. And not only that, back in the olden times Lefties cared about things like free speech and preventing censorship and curtailing excessive illegal immigration. Of course some of this stuff is going all the way back to the nineteen hundreds.
The NYT article about the drone strike might be true, but let’s not forget that it was essentially nothing more than a press release by the Taliban. (Unless you believe that the NYT had reporters and translators and photographers on the ground.)
LTEC:
The error was acknowledged by the military.
NEO —
Yes. And they said one important source of information was the New York Times.
“The general said the Times investigation helped investigators determine that they had struck a wrong target. “As we in fact worked on our investigation, we used all available information,” General McKenzie told reporters. “Certainly that included some of the stuff The New York Times did.”
Whether the Times article was correct or not, it was certainly effectively written by the Taliban. One has to wonder if the military’s other sources were more reliable.
LTEC:
The military had plenty of other conduits of information. I don’t think there’s much doubt at this point about what happened.
So now I’m wondering WTH is the difference between Twitter (or Facebook or YouTube) and Tik Tok, other than the government that’s handling the site?
KRB
Who tagged thaf particular vehicle and why when you add the whole disaster of the bastion gate its very macabre
Occasionally you get collateral damage in a strike but this was totally civilian you add how captain yafi is being treared now thar we know his status