''Guys, you got caught. That's a problem.''
"'Guys, you got caught. That's a problem.'"If spy literature has taught us anything, it's that covert operators sure do love their toys. They also, apparently,, the Pentagon is to conduct a "sweeping audit" of the US military's social media-driven psychological operations practices, following efforts by Facebook and Twitter to remove fake, propaganda-laden bot accounts connected to the US military.
"[Agranovich's] point‚" one person involved told the paper, "was 'Guys, you got caught. That's a problem.'"DoD officials have defended their digital PSYOP efforts, their basic argument being whataboutism — if other nations do it, why shouldn't we? "Our adversaries are absolutely operating in the information domain," an unnamed senior defense official told. "There are some who think we shouldn’t do anything clandestine in that space. Ceding an entire domain to an adversary would be unwise. But we need stronger policy guardrails."
Gotta be real: that sounds flimsy, not to mention dangerous. And at the end of the day, these might be the Pentagon's toys, but it isn't their playground. Facebook and Twitter rule their separate sandboxes, and it's well within their rights to remove any content they deem unfit. After all, isn't that
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