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Western Whites DON'T understand that their GOVTS LIE DECEIVE AND MANIPULATE 24x7 every issue

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Sep 20, 2022, 3:50:59 AM9/20/22
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Western Whites DON'T understand that their GOVTS LIE DECEIVE AND
MANIPULATE 24x7 every issue, every day, all the fucking time.

So, obviously WHITES don't have the ability to SEPARATE fact from
fiction, because they GROW UP in a STINKY OCEAN of LYING and DECEIVING
culture their ENTIRE LIVES.

So, when people like me or Caitlin Johnston TRY TO TELL THEM the TRUTH,
they are fucking CLUELESS. They are So fucking DUMB, they actually
believe the EVIL US UK Aus govt psychopaths brainwashing them that
"TRUTH TELLERS are schizophrenic."



They Lie To Us
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/they-lie-to-us



Pentagon caught running fake social media accounts spreading fake news
on US foes, e.g. tweets claiming that Iran was harvesting the organs of
Afghan refugees.


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/

Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations

Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook
and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.

The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine
information warfare after major social media companies identified and
took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military
in violation of the platforms’ rules.

Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, last week
instructed the military commands that engage in psychological operations
online to provide a full accounting of their activities by next month
after the White House and some federal agencies expressed mounting
concerns over the Defense Department’s attempted manipulation of
audiences overseas, according to several defense and administration
officials familiar with the matter.

The takedowns in recent years by Twitter and Facebook of more than 150
bogus personas and media sites created in the United States was
disclosed last month by internet researchers Graphika and the Stanford
Internet Observatory. While the researchers did not attribute the sham
accounts to the U.S. military, two officials familiar with the matter
said that U.S. Central Command is among those whose activities are
facing scrutiny. Like others interviewed for this report, they spoke on
the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.

The researchers did not specify when the takedowns occurred, but those
familiar with the matter said they were within the past two or three
years. Some were recent, they said, and involved posts from the summer
that advanced anti-Russia narratives citing the Kremlin’s “imperialist”
war in Ukraine and warning of the conflict’s direct impact on Central
Asian countries. Significantly, they found that the pretend personas —
employing tactics used by countries such as Russia and China — did not
gain much traction, and that overt accounts actually attracted more
followers.

Centcom, headquartered in Tampa, has purview over military operations
across 21 countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and
South Asia. A spokesman declined to comment.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said
in a statement that the military’s information operations “support our
national security priorities” and must be conducted in compliance with
relevant laws and policies. “We are committed to enforcing those
safeguards,” he said.

Spokespersons for Facebook and Twitter declined to comment.

Facebook and Twitter removed pro-West fake accounts originating in the
United States

According to the researchers’ report, the accounts taken down included a
made-up Persian-language media site that shared content reposted from
the U.S.-funded Voice of America Farsi and Radio Free Europe. Another,
it said, was linked to a Twitter handle that in the past had claimed to
operate on behalf of Centcom.

One fake account posted an inflammatory tweet claiming that relatives of
deceased Afghan refugees had reported bodies being returned from Iran
with missing organs, according to the report. The tweet linked to a
video that was part of an article posted on a U.S.-military affiliated
website.

Centcom has not commented on whether these accounts were created by its
personnel or contractors. If the organ-harvesting tweet is shown to be
Centcom’s, one defense official said, it would “absolutely be a
violation of doctrine and training practices.”

Independent of the report, The Washington Post has learned that in 2020
Facebook disabled fictitious personas created by Centcom to counter
disinformation spread by China suggesting the coronavirus responsible
for covid-19 was created at a U.S. Army lab in Fort Detrick, Md.,
according to officials familiar with the matter. The pseudo profiles —
active in Facebook groups that conversed in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu, the
officials said — were used to amplify truthful information from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the virus’s origination
in China.

The U.S. government’s use of ersatz social media accounts, though
authorized by law and policy, has stirred controversy inside the Biden
administration, with the White House pressing the Pentagon to clarify
and justify its policies. The White House, agencies such as the State
Department and even some officials within the Defense Department have
been concerned that the policies are too broad, allowing leeway for
tactics that even if used to spread truthful information, risk eroding
U.S. credibility, several U.S. officials said.

“Our adversaries are absolutely operating in the information domain,”
said a second senior defense official. “There are some who think we
shouldn’t do anything clandestine in that space. Ceding an entire domain
to an adversary would be unwise. But we need stronger policy guardrails.”

A spokeswoman for the National Security Council, which is part of the
White House, declined to comment.

Kahl disclosed his review at a virtual meeting convened by the National
Security Council on Tuesday, saying he wants to know what types of
operations have been carried out, who they’re targeting, what tools are
being used and why military commanders have chosen those tactics, and
how effective they have been, several officials said.

The message was essentially, “You have to justify to me why you’re doing
these types of things,” the first defense official said.

Pentagon policy and doctrine discourage the military from peddling
falsehoods, but there are no specific rules mandating the use of
truthful information for psychological operations. For instance, the
military sometimes employs fiction and satire for persuasion purposes,
but generally the messages are supposed to stick to facts, officials said.

In 2020, officers at Facebook and Twitter contacted the Pentagon to
raise concerns about the phony accounts they were having to remove,
suspicious they were associated with the military. That summer, David
Agranovich, Facebook’s director for global threat disruption, spoke to
Christopher C. Miller, then assistant director for Special
Operations/Low Intensity Conflict, which oversees influence operations
policy, warning him that if Facebook could sniff them out, so could U.S.
adversaries, several people familiar with the conversation said.

“His point‚” one person said, “was ‘Guys, you got caught. That’s a
problem.’ ”

Before Miller could take action, he was tapped to head a different
agency — the National Counterterrorism Center. Then the November
election happened and time ran out for the Trump administration to
address the matter, although Miller did spend the last few weeks of
Donald Trump’s presidency serving as acting defense secretary.

With the rise of Russia and China as strategic competitors, military
commanders have wanted to fight back, including online. And Congress
supported that. Frustrated with perceived legal obstacles to the Defense
Department’s ability to conduct clandestine activities in cyberspace,
Congress in late 2019 passed a law affirming that the military could
conduct operations in the “information environment” to defend the United
States and to push back against foreign disinformation aimed at
undermining its interests. The measure, known as Section 1631, allows
the military to carry out clandestine psychological operations without
crossing what the CIA has claimed as its covert authority, alleviating
some of the friction that had hindered such operations previously.

“Combatant commanders got really excited,” recalled the first defense
official. “They were very eager to utilize these new authorities. The
defense contractors were equally eager to land lucrative classified
contracts to enable clandestine influence operations.”

At the same time, the official said, military leaders were not trained
to oversee “technically complex operations conducted by contractors” or
coordinate such activities with other stakeholders elsewhere in the U.S.
government.

Last year, with a new administration in place, Facebook’s Agranovich
tried again. This time he took his complaint to President Biden’s deputy
national security adviser for cyber, Anne Neuberger. Agranovich, who had
worked at the NSC under Trump, told Neuberger that Facebook was taking
down fake accounts because they violated the company’s terms of service,
according to people familiar with the exchange.

The accounts were easily detected by Facebook, which since Russia’s
campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election has enhanced its
ability to identify mock personas and sites. In some cases, the company
had removed profiles, which appeared to be associated with the military,
that promoted information deemed by fact-checkers to be false, said a
person familiar with the matter.

Report on Russian disinformation amid 2016 election shows the
operation’s scale and sweep

Agranovich also spoke to officials at the Pentagon. His message was: “We
know what DOD is doing. It violates our policies. We will enforce our
policies” and so “DOD should knock it off,” said a U.S. official briefed
on the matter.

In response to White House concerns, Kahl ordered a review of Military
Information Support Operations, or MISO, the Pentagon’s moniker for
psychological operations. A draft concluded that policies, training and
oversight all needed tightening, and that coordination with other
agencies, such as the State Department and the CIA, needed
strengthening, according to officials.

The review also found that while there were cases in which fictitious
information was pushed by the military, they were the result of
inadequate oversight of contractors and personnel training — not
systemic problems, officials said.

Pentagon leadership did little with the review, two officials said,
before Graphika and Stanford published their report on Aug. 24, which
elicited a flurry of news coverage and questions for the military.

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