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But Twitter didn’t know the accounts would later be astroturfing >KAHLER TOLD TWITTER that the accounts would all be “USG-attributed, Arabic-language accounts
by NLPaep 4y ago
But Twitter didn’t know the accounts would later be astroturfing
>KAHLER TOLD TWITTER that the accounts would all be “USG-attributed, Arabic-language accounts tweeting on relevant security issues.” That promise fell short, as many of the accounts subsequently deleted disclosures of affiliation with the U.S. government.
>That promise fell short, as many of the accounts subsequently deleted disclosures of affiliation with the U.S. government.
>The former Twitter employee told The Intercept that they were surprised to learn of the Defense Department’s shifting tactics. “It sounds like DOD was doing something shady and definitely not in line with what they had presented to us at the time,” they said.
- 082349872349872 4y agoFair enough, and I would certainly believe it[0] ... but if I were building an anti-astroturfing system, it would not have exemptions. > The point will invariably arise: "This tells me how to listen to a foreign radio. Okay, I'll get the news, the lectures, the plays—all the rest of it. But so what? How am I going to know what's the truth and what's propaganda? How can I tell 'em apart? Tell me that!" > The answer is simple: "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports." [0] All it would take would be for one person to make the original request, and a different person to remove the disclaimers. Given "stupidity before malice" a more charitable headline would have been "Twitter (Inadvertently) Aided The Pentagon in Its..."?