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Let me preface everything by saying following your moral compass is good, even if you do it inconsistently, and even if that inconsistency is biased. It is unam

Let me preface everything by saying following your moral compass is good, even if you do it inconsistently, and even if that inconsistency is biased. It is unambiguously better to do something good when motivated, even if you didn't do something that would have been even better, and just as easy for you. In other words, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit [1,2]. Despite this revelation, Twitter at the time defended his employment, and did not fire him. I don't know if Musk kept him or not. The Iraq war (which predates Twitter, but is the kind of operation a Middle East psyops unit would try to sell to the public, and the risk of further US/UK-led wars in the area is high) is responsible for about 460k deaths [3]. But perhaps you were simply unaware, as the story was mostly ignored by the media [4]. Searching "Gordon MacMillan site:url" finds no relevant articles on theguardian.com, bbc.com, bbc.co.uk, nytimes.com, cnn.com, msnbc.com, latimes.com, theatlantic.com, washingtonpost.com, or foxnews.com [1] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-part-time-officer-uk-army-psychological-warfare-unit https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-pa... [2] https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-soldier-spreading-disinformation-across-social-media-1462406 https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-s... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War [4] https://fair.org/home/media-ignore-unmasking-of-twitter-exec-as-british-psyops-officer/ https://fair.org/home/media-ignore-unmasking-of-twitter-exec...

MiguelX413 3y ago
There were always reasons to not use Twitter, which is why I never did.
sterlind 3y ago
> In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit Wow, so secret that he listed it on his own LinkedIn profile. His involvement with a psyops group that seems to be little more than a Middle East version of the Ad Council, posting flyers that say "you can be a Muslim and a feminist!" on various social media accounts, it seems. and yet you somehow breathlessly manage to tie this to the death toll of the Iraq war?
- SenAnder 3y ago
  > you somehow breathlessly manage to tie this to the death toll of the Iraq war He is a psyops officer in the army that bombed Iraq. It is not exactly a far-fetched link. As for your assertion that the activities of the psychological warfare unit of the British army are entirely benign.. that's like saying the only purpose of the infantry is to march in parades. It is also not something you would believe for any country that is not currently an ally. Certainly not for China or Russia.

MiguelX413 3y ago

There were always reasons to not use Twitter, which is why I never did.

sterlind 3y ago

> In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit Wow, so secret that he listed it on his own LinkedIn profile. His involvement with a psyops group that seems to be little more than a Middle East version of the Ad Council, posting flyers that say "you can be a Muslim and a feminist!" on various social media accounts, it seems. and yet you somehow breathlessly manage to tie this to the death toll of the Iraq war?

SenAnder 3y ago
> you somehow breathlessly manage to tie this to the death toll of the Iraq war He is a psyops officer in the army that bombed Iraq. It is not exactly a far-fetched link. As for your assertion that the activities of the psychological warfare unit of the British army are entirely benign.. that's like saying the only purpose of the infantry is to march in parades. It is also not something you would believe for any country that is not currently an ally. Certainly not for China or Russia.