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TWTR is a largeish company. I have no evidence but presume it is overwhelmingly likely that their scale a) makes getting inside the head of every employee is im
by exikyut 6y ago
TWTR is a largeish company. I have no evidence but presume it is overwhelmingly likely that their scale a) makes getting inside the head of every employee is impossible and b) fosters the right conditions for a healthy number of little agenda-ized splinter cells with various passionate motivations and whatnot.
Besides public state and company size, Twitter is also new media. And all media is information warfare. (Hmm, that sounds a bit strong, especially considering the toxicity that is the platform itself; I mean the term generically speaking.)
- zelly 6y agoWeren't there cases of foreign spies discovered in Twitter ranks, or was that some other company?
- MandieD 6y agoYes, it was Twitter, and and the spies were working on behalf of Saudi Arabia: <a href=“https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-saudi-arabia-by-digging-into-the-accounts-of-kingdom-critics/2019/11/06/2e9593da-00a0-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html“>Former https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit... Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics</a>
- blaser-waffle 6y agoIt was twitter. But that's largely moot -- there are almost certainly spy-espionage types in a lot of large tech companies. Mostly for siphoning off tech secrets, but I'm sure having someone with root access to some $SYSTEM is useful for political purposes too.