Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X

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Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X

Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of…

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Who else is old enough to remember Jessica Lynch?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lynch

#rescue #propaganda #psyops

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Marco Rubio just signed a cable directing every American embassy globally to coordinate with Pentagon psychological operations units, recruit local academics and community leaders as influence assets, and use Musk's X as the delivery mechanism.

American embassies are now formally hostile infrastructure in every country they're operating in.

That includes New Zealand.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk

#nzpol #psyops #fiveeyes #hostile

US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – and use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’

Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit

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Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types in ActivityPub, ATProtocol-based microblogs would only receive a link to the article rather than the content of the long-form post. One of the main reasons

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So we need to talk about the #Petroleum #Dollar. We've discovered that not only is oil and the petroleum bad for the #environment, but it's underpinning of #US #imperialism - and now also US #fascism.

The fact that the #PetroleumIndustry has been doing #PsyOps and privatized #propaganda since the 70s should be apparent.

But now the new new talking point is that being against #renewables is basically wanting to remain a #VassalState under the US.

The #USD is a chain that binds #Europe.

Remembering the time I went through the Burger King application process and encountered this bit of psychological warfare (jk, the whole process was like this)

#techbrosarecomplicit #poverty #burgerking #application #psyops

"In a move to secure 'the integrity of the global town square', the social media platform X last Friday began posting user location data. As a result, it emerged that dozens of influential Maga accounts are run out of foreign countries, including Russia, India and Nigeria."

#JohnThornhill, 2025

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#SocialMedia #disinfo #PsyOps #MAGA

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