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Re:Psychological Operations by obviouslynotme on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:56PM (#30535705)
>Foreign gov't, certainly. Ours? As honestly as I can claim, I never knew of any Psyop folks conducting operations on those sites, nor did I ever hear of any directives for Psyop folks to use those platforms as viable mediums.

They were smaller then and it was still illegal for the USGov to do domestic propaganda before 2014. Twitter is famous for having literal PsyOps officers on staff.[1]

1. https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-s...

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Re:Psychological Operations by boston_clone on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:19PM (#30535889)
The article states that was a UK officer, and not the US.
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Re:Psychological Operations by obviouslynotme on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:34PM (#30536425)
That is a distinction without a difference.
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Re:Psychological Operations by boston_clone on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:19PM (#30537137)
I imagine there are at least a few differences in the legal boundaries for the US military and the UK. I can't speak to the latter, but I stand by my claim about the former.

Here's the most concrete anything I could find [0] about relationships between the US media and any PsyOp personnel, but I don't much care to look very hard. You're welcome to look as well.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...

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Re:Psychological Operations by wolverine876 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:28PM (#30536796)
That is easily written but what does it mean and why should we believe it?
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Re:Psychological Operations by wolverine876 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:31PM (#30536816)
Who publishes Newsweek? Last I knew it was the same as IBT, who were not really credible.
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