davel OP , 4 months ago

It doesn’t examine other social media, like the much-larger Facebook.

Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to “Protect Democracy”

All of the US corporate social media platforms are part of the US military-industrial-intellegence complex now. Look at their boards of directors and executives. Look at Reddit:

• Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
• r/neoliberal was created by a neoliberal think tank » BPR Interviews: The Neoliberal Project

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TikTok as well. We’ve known since Snowden that US “cloud”/hosting companies are deeply embedded. The US already forced them to move their service to the US onto one of those providers, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman.

They have their eye on the fediverse now, too: Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World

As I’ve said before, the threat has always been coming from inside the house:

• lemmy.ml/comment/8912549
• lemmy.ml/comment/8913172

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Lastly, it doesn’t suggest that foreign influence operations aren’t a threat at all.

One can’t prove a negative, and I’m sure there isn’t literally nothing that has happened or will ever happen. But trying to propagandize the voters of the most propagandized country in the world probably isn’t the most efficient way to go about it. Bribing politicians surely would be more efficient, for example.