I wrote about the most-overlooked part of Wednesday’s Oversight Committee hearing: The revelation that “thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands” of Russian disinformation accounts are still active on the platform, waging an ongoing war on reality.
This is the first we’ve heard of an ongoing foreign disinfo campaign of this magnitude, and the implications are staggering.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/twitter-exec-says-hundreds-of-thousands
This was revealed during an exchange between Rep. Raskin and Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth. I’m astounded that this revelation was largely overlooked and has gone totally unreported, and I’ve contacted both Roth and Raskin for additional information.
The alarming development also comes at a time when Elon Musk has just dismantled many of the teams tasked with monitoring/mitigating foreign interference, and is actively trying to discredit the work they did.
If the estimated scale of the operation is accurate, it has the potential to mass-manipulate reality, which is ultimately the goal of asymmetric/non-linear warfare, which seeks to break you down & undermine your perceptions by subjecting you to an ever-shifting state of reality so you can never be sure about what’s happening nor who is doing it.
It takes place on a battlefield with no rules or consistency, where the line between friend and enemy sometimes doesn’t exist at all.
Caroline Orr Bueno
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