> Twitter was heavily used to seek help by people in turmoil, even hundreds of people were posting from under the rubbles. The officials were claiming that everything was under control and they are helping everyone but people were posting videos showing the situation on the ground and the situation didn't look even close to being under control.
Social media is the first target no matter the country
The US do the exact same [1], they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it
In fact, it's the first thing the US want to do for foreign apps, to ban them, just like with TikTok [2], they are recent talks about a global ban too
So we can't just throw the stone at Turkey, you have to examinate the situation, they had a terrorist attack in Istanbul in november [3], mossad agents doing shady things [4], wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad [5] (imagine if the coup succeeded knowing how the Ukraine-Russia conflict developped and the current issues in Azerbaijan-Armenia, they dodged something sinister)
Twitter is known to be a place with lot of political activity, it's easy for a foreign country to spread misinformation, there are lot of noise
And Twitter is not the most popular social media app in Turkey, plus the population in that region is not tech savvy either
You had me nodding until this part. Yes, twitter is filled with misinformation. But government censorship is more dangerous than misinformation. Governments have killed more people than anything else short of heart attacks and cancer. Governments murdered hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century; giving governments the power to censor whatever the government deems to be misinformation is insanely dangerous. The most dangerous kind of misinformation is that which is promulgated by the government itself.
It's one of the mission of the CIA, spread propaganda, use influence to manipulate the press and journalists all over the world etc, back during the cold war
Using social media to achieve this mission is the natural evolution, as peoples usage to get information changes over time
It's very well documented, so seeing them at key roles isn't a surprise, and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
They can't do it with TikTok, the app of choice of the youth and people all over the world
Good god - the FBI recently got outed (Twitter files - Elon Musk - hello?) paying more than $30M to Twitter to do their bidding. Are you really this ignorant of current events?
It's pretty clear we all these days live in different bubbles, of what is "widely known current events".
Googling, it looks like it was $3 million, not $30 million, for data requested with court order for such, rather than for suppressing speech or other control? It was still the FBI, not the CIA? This one?
Yes, I legitimately didn't know what the GP I was replying to was suggesting that the CIA controlled, what "them" meant. Now that they replied, I understand what they are suggesting, and think they are... living in a different bubble than me.
The wiki mentions the CIA, but their investigations found links to groups helped by both the mossad and the CIA, i'll try to find the link for the investigation, i'll edit the post once i find it
Your source links don't match up with what you're saying. For example, with [1#] you claim the US "controls" social media with CIA agents, but [1#] simply shows a social media company that merely hired former CIA agents. That's like saying Facebook hired a bunch of ex-Microsoft people, therefore Microsoft controls Facebook. Doesn't make sense.
Social media is the first target no matter the country
The US do the exact same [1], they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it
In fact, it's the first thing the US want to do for foreign apps, to ban them, just like with TikTok [2], they are recent talks about a global ban too
So we can't just throw the stone at Turkey, you have to examinate the situation, they had a terrorist attack in Istanbul in november [3], mossad agents doing shady things [4], wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad [5] (imagine if the coup succeeded knowing how the Ukraine-Russia conflict developped and the current issues in Azerbaijan-Armenia, they dodged something sinister)
Twitter is known to be a place with lot of political activity, it's easy for a foreign country to spread misinformation, there are lot of noise
And Twitter is not the most popular social media app in Turkey, plus the population in that region is not tech savvy either
[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...
[1#] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...
[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/30/us-tiktok...
[3] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63615076
[4] - https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2023/1/11...
[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...