{"id":68377,"date":"2024-05-25T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68377"},"modified":"2024-05-25T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:25:40","slug":"exposing-the-cias-secret-effort-to-seize-control-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68377","title":{"rendered":"Exposing The CIA&#8217;s Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/twitter-files-cia-exposing-secret-effort-us-intelligence-seize-control-social-media\">Exposing The CIA&#8217;s Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p>While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; report reveals that\u00a0<strong>a member of the Board of Trustees of InQtel<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; the CIA&#8217;s mission-driving venture capital firm, along with\u00a0<strong>&#8220;former&#8221; intelligence community (IC) and CIA analysts,\u00a0<\/strong>were involved in a massive effort in 2021-2022\u00a0<strong>to take over Twitter&#8217;s content management system<\/strong>, as Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag report over at Shellenberger&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Public<\/em>\u00a0(subscribers can check out the extensive 6,800 word report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/twitter-files-cia\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/mudge%201ab.jpg?itok=wUnGd4Zy\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/mudge%201ab.jpg?itok=wUnGd4Zy\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/mudge%201ab.jpg?itok=wUnGd4Zy\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"cc8341bf-548e-4d2c-b72a-3452231a6058\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to &#8220;thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>these efforts were part of a broader strategy to manage how information is disseminated and consumed on social media\u00a0<\/strong>under the guise of combating &#8216;misinformation&#8217; and foreign propaganda efforts &#8211; as this complex of government-linked individuals and organizations has gone to great lengths to suggest that narrative control is a national security issue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_desktop__eL99N AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_inContentParent__PbvHE\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the report, the effort also involved;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>a long-time IC contractor and senior Department of Defense R&amp;D official\u00a0<\/strong>who spent years developing technologies to detect whistleblowers (\u201cinsider threats\u201d) like Edward Snowden and Wikileaks\u2019 leakers;<\/li>\n<li>the proposed head of the DHS\u2019 aborted Disinformation Governance Board,\u00a0<strong>Nina Jankowicz<\/strong>, who aided US military and NATO \u201chybrid war\u201d operations in Europe;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Baker<\/strong>, who, as FBI General Counsel, helped start the Russiagate hoax, and, as Twitter\u2019s Deputy General Counsel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shellenberger\/status\/1604902028852924416\" rel=\"\">urged<\/a>\u00a0Twitter executives to censor The New York Post story about Hunter Biden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/nina2_0.PNG?itok=hvcUG7b5\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/nina2_0.PNG?itok=hvcUG7b5\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/nina2_0.PNG?itok=hvcUG7b5\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"66f1be58-2bab-4be1-930d-1abf4d1f1ab0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz (aka &#8216;Scary Poppins&#8217;), previously tipped to lead the DHS\u2019s now-aborted Disinformation Governance Board, has been a vocal advocate for more stringent regulation of online speech to counteract &#8216;rampant disinformation.&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Jim Baker<\/strong>, in his capacity as FBI General Counsel and later as Twitter\u2019s Deputy General Counsel,\u00a0<strong>advocated for and implemented policies that would restrict certain types of speech on the platform<\/strong>, including decisions that affected the visibility of politically sensitive content.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposing The CIA&#8217;s Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; 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