UK Column News - Monday, 19th December 2022 41:00 - Twitter Files: The world's biggest spook playground—run by an insecure newbie?

 

UK Column News - Monday, 19th December 2022 41:00 - Twitter Files: The world's biggest spook playground—run by an insecure newbie?

41:00 Elusive Jack Dorsey’s mea culpa in light of his successor Elon Musk’s releases, the Twitter Files: admits that Twitter fails to meet his founding principles
Patrick Henningsen analysis: Unwelcome to the US Government because its argument that Twitter is a private platform that can ban free speech no longer stacks up in light of these revelations as to what the Government has been coordinating with Twitter
Patrick Henningsen commentary: A hollow mea culpa because Dorsey did nothing while at the helm to correct the course or rid Twitter of its staff's rife political activism—this is one of the most egregious censorship scandals in the history of the Internet and is being covered up by mainstream media, with a couple of conservative US exceptions 

44:00 Real News Network: Twitter is hiring an alarming number of FBI agents
Patrick Henningsen commentary: American and British spooks even become heads of department at Twitter
The Post Millennial: Former Twitter employee details admins' extensive access to user data and personal messages
Patrick Henningsen analysis: This data pool is rich in journalists communicating with sources, political campaign managers communicating with each other—and now it is confirmed that department heads had the ability to read DMs (private messages on Twitter) all the while—Twitter is an intelligence-gathering tool, and not just for the Five Eyes

46:51 Iran protests—Time: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement (2009)
Patrick Henningsen commentary: There was much excitement in the run-up to the Arab Spring about the use of Twitter as a régime-change tool; no wonder the spooks loved it

47:44 CNBC: Former Twitter employee sentenced to more than three years in prison for spying for Saudi Arabia
Patrick Henningsen analysis: The dissidents thus targeted will have met nasty ends

52:06 Wired: Twitter needs to start exposing the UK's murky online propaganda (2019)—when the phenomenon of the spook sock puppet was becoming more widely known
Middle East Eye: Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army 'psyops' soldier (2019); the 77th Brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook

AP News: Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites
Patrick Henningsen analysis: This shutdown of core functionality might be preparation to port Twitter users en masse to a new reservation; suggests insecurity on Elon Musk's part
53:16 Reuters: Twitter suspends several journalists, Musk cites 'doxxing' of his jet
Patrick Henningsen analysis: Yet some of the big names banned for jeopardising the Musk family's safety were then let back on to Twitter
53:58 Elon Musk poll: Should I step down as head of Twitter?— 43% of 13.6 million poll respondents said no
Patrick Henningsen commentary: Silicon Valley is abuzz with Musk's quest to replace himself with a new Twitter CEO, who might go in a different direction and rule with more of an iron fist