Twitter Aided The Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Re:Twitter Aided The Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propagand... by NLPaep on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:15PM (#34073493)

But the claims are blatantly false when you look at their links

>Another CENTCOM account, @althughur, which posts anti-Iran and anti-ISIS content focused on an Iraqi audience, changed its Twitter bio from a CENTCOM affiliation to an Arabic phrase that simply reads “Euphrates pulse.”

Here’s their link: https://web.archive.org/web/20191028194428/https://twitter.c...

Nothing simply says “Euphrates pulse” here.

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Re:Twitter Aided The Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propagand... by jhshah on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:38PM (#34073767)

The name of the twitter account is "نبض الفرات" which translates to "Euphrates pulse". However, you're right that the Twitter bio doesn't have that phrase; rather, in the link you gave it's another CENTCOM disclaimer. It looks like this phrase in the bio was later deleted and replaced with nothing (https://web.archive.org/web/20210506142008/https://twitter.c...), and probably not coincidentally the account is now suspended for breaking the Twitter rules.

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