I don't understand what you're suggesting CIA agents are controlling. What is "them" in "they control them"?
The article you link to involves surveillance (rather than control) by the FBI (rather than CIA).
An example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondberman/
They are in most social media companies
So they can decide what to ban that could hinder their national social order
Something Turkey can't do with Twitter, hence a ban, just like the US with TikTok and the pseudo "algorithm"
With the amount of misinformation that spreads in Twitter, it is the right thing to do
It was similar with Iran, and that coincides with Musk purchasing Twitter and dismantling the moderation team making it unable to function at all
https://news.yahoo.com/twitters-content-moderation-team-repo...
You had me nodding until this part. Yes, twitter is filled with misinformation. But government censorship is more dangerous than misinformation. Governments have killed more people than anything else short of heart attacks and cancer. Governments murdered hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century; giving governments the power to censor whatever the government deems to be misinformation is insanely dangerous. The most dangerous kind of misinformation is that which is promulgated by the government itself.
Using social media to achieve this mission is the natural evolution, as peoples usage to get information changes over time
It's very well documented, so seeing them at key roles isn't a surprise, and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
They can't do it with TikTok, the app of choice of the youth and people all over the world
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/John_R._Stockwell
https://twitter.com/MichaelNo2War/status/1589793529823645696
Googling, it looks like it was $3 million, not $30 million, for data requested, not for suppressing speech or other control? It was still the FBI, not the CIA? This one?
https://reason.com/2022/12/19/the-fbi-paid-twitter-3-4-milli...
Yes, I legitimately didn't know what the GP I was replying to was suggesting that the CIA controlled. Now that they replied, I understand what they are suggesting, and think they are... living in a different bubble than me.
Turkey has not even accused Mossad of being involved in the failed coup d'etat.
Social media is the first target no matter the country
The US do the exact same [1], they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it
In fact, it's the first thing the US want to do for foreign apps, to ban them, just like with TikTok [2], they are recent talks about a global ban too
So we can't just throw the stone at Turkey, you have to examinate the situation, they had a terrorist attack in Istanbul in november [3], mossad agents doing shady things [4], wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad [5] (imagine if the coup succeeded knowing how the Ukraine-Russia conflict developped and the current issues in Azerbaijan-Armenia, they dodged something sinister)
Twitter is known to be a place with lot of political activity, it's easy for a foreign country to spread misinformation, there are lot of noise
And Twitter is not the most popular social media app in Turkey, plus the population in that region is not tech savvy either
[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...
[1#] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...
[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/30/us-tiktok...
[3] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63615076
[4] - https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2023/1/11...
[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...