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Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations
Washington Post ^ | 9/19/20 | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on 09/20/2022 8:10:13 AM PDT by JonPreston

The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms’ rules.

According to the researchers’ report, the accounts taken down included a made-up Persian-language media site that shared content reposted from the U.S.-funded Voice of America Farsi and Radio Free Europe. Another, it said, was linked to a Twitter handle that in the past had claimed to operate on behalf of Centcom.

One fake account posted an inflammatory tweet claiming that relatives of deceased Afghan refugees had reported bodies being returned from Iran with missing organs, according to the report. The tweet linked to a video that was part of an article posted on a U.S.-military affiliated website.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clandestine; pentagon; psyop
A half-dozen or so Think Tank Posters are here and I don't think they're very hard to spot.
1 posted on 09/20/2022 8:10:13 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Name them.


2 posted on 09/20/2022 8:13:50 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: JonPreston

“A half-dozen or so Think Tank Posters are here and I don’t think they’re very hard to spot.”

Not at all - they’re the ones dragging us into WW3, be it Ukraine or Taiwan (or a number of other places) - they don’t seem to care which one starts WW3, only that it starts.


3 posted on 09/20/2022 8:16:29 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 44 degrees)
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To: JonPreston

RE: Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations

After the “Sweeping Review”, it will be determined that any future Clandestine Psychological Operations shall be limited to American citizens that express disagreement or skepticism or doubts or opposition to the Biden Regime.


4 posted on 09/20/2022 8:16:32 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
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To: BobL

What about FBI/CIA/Qanon types?

I’ve always believed Q-anon to be a psyop.


5 posted on 09/20/2022 8:20:19 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

“I’ve always believed Q-anon to be a psyop.”

You’re right.

L


6 posted on 09/20/2022 8:23:12 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Bayard

Why do such things not qualify as misinformation? Why are the accounts not banned?


7 posted on 09/20/2022 8:29:50 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Giant meteor 2022!!!)
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To: Bayard

If it is, it is not one of ours.
Reads more like something from overseas, like the Lyndon LaRouche cult.


8 posted on 09/20/2022 8:35:19 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: JonPreston

I suppose the will not remove the very Marxist racially divisive psych operations, will they.


9 posted on 09/20/2022 8:39:48 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Bayard

It absolutely is, #1 Q has always been wrong. #2 It makes people on the right look like idiots.


10 posted on 09/20/2022 8:40:33 AM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Bayard

I would put some $$$$ on that.


11 posted on 09/20/2022 8:46:54 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Husker24

If Q wasn’t psyops to begin with, I guarantee it has been co-opted by now.


12 posted on 09/20/2022 8:51:32 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: newzjunkey
"Why do such things not qualify as misinformation? Why are the accounts not banned?"

In my former life/profession, I have some background in PSYOP. When I was involved it was always against the law to use PSYOP agains American citizens. I wonder if this law changed or it is just ignored. I think the authors of this PSYOP should be prosecuted or at a minimum disciplined.

13 posted on 09/20/2022 9:06:22 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Bayard

Absolutely agree with you—Qanon is at best a hoax, and at worst, U.S. psyops.


14 posted on 09/20/2022 9:26:40 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: newzjunkey

Why are the accounts not banned?

Perhaps because the government help set them up and provided funding and protection... just a wild ass guess.


15 posted on 09/20/2022 9:41:04 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Bayard

Q-tards. Yep.
Not to say some good info came out, but the couple hard-core Q people I know personally are whacked out. Like, everything is a conspiracy boiling down to elitists and child sacrifice. For any good info being exposed, these whacked out people turn decent people off.


16 posted on 09/20/2022 9:51:51 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: vpintheak

Well that’s strange, because if you actually read the Q posts, not the replies, you would see that they focused on corruption. Pretty much all of the allegations have been proven. It’s my observation that the biggest Q bashers really don’t know anything about Q.


17 posted on 09/20/2022 9:58:21 AM PDT by binreadin
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To: binreadin

Government corruption (Federal, State & Local is hardly a secret. You don’t need to claim to be in contact with a secret cabal of “insiders” to talk about or know about government corruption!


18 posted on 09/20/2022 10:02:18 AM PDT by Reily
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