Quinta JurecicLatest ~~~Twitter Files~~~~ is a step up from the others insofar as it actually has some new-ish and somewhat interesting information ... albeit information that's really just filling in some details about reporting that the Washington Post already did https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/
Here is the Post's reporting (which, to be fair, the Intercept story links to) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/
All this is further demonstration of why, imo, the US government running information operations like this is a really bad idea
the intercept story is so eager to present twitter's actions as nefarious that it ironically backs into the trap of framing information operations as more effective than they necessarily are—eg referring to "the CENTCOM psyop campaign" (lol). I say ironic because, when it comes to eg Russian election interference, leftists tend to play down the effects of such measures. (imo skepticism is good, but we should apply it across the board!)
FWIW, in contrast, the Post story is pretty good about clarifying that there's no evidence that CENTCOM's efforts had any effect. (I still think centcom shouldn't have done this.)
i'm kind of impressed by the chutzpah of the intercept in attempting to make a Big Scandal out of a story that already struggled to get traction the first time around ... a fact the intercept itself notes https://mastodon.social/@qjurecic/109549133098025760
The Big Fox@qjurecic it’s Lee fang. Every piece of his is a noun, a verb and how can he help trump.