Twitter needs to start exposing the UK's murky online propaganda
wired.co.uk
wired.co.uk
But any potential bias may also be connected to groups that help social networks investigate online disinformation. Facebook has engaged the Atlantic Council, whose board includes people like Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and several former or current heads of the CIA. [..]
Twitter, meanwhile, to help decide what media is state-controlled has relied on input from Freedom House, a narrative management firm that is funded largely by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a body that is in turn directly funded by the US government, and was set up in 1983 to push regime change in foreign nations. FireEye, a cybersecurity firm relied on by Facebook to decide which accounts are inauthentic, was founded in 2004 and received early funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Imagine you're from somewhere in the Middle East, and the same people doing regime change in your neighborhood, are also in charge of policing Twitter and Facebook. You would, rightly, regard those social media as enemy territory.
Or if that's too difficult, try imagining if the Russian FSB was funding Twitter's anti-disinformation groups, and Belarusan psychological warfare officers headed it's editorial department for Eastern Europe.