… He still hasn’t identified the source code, the proverbial ghost in the machine, buried deep in the algorithmic code; however, Twitter owner Elon Musk has finally identified the agency within the U.S. government who spearheaded the creation. The “Global Engagement Center” (GEC) of the State Dept.
The GEC mission is described as, “To direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate U.S. Federal Government efforts to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations,” (link).
[Musk Tweet Link – GEC Center Link]
(…) To put it in brutally honest terms, the State Dept initially created the partnership between the U.S. government and Twitter (Arab Spring). However, when the operations needed to become domestically centered (post Trump election), another agency stepped in…. The United States Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) is the operating system running in the background of Twitter.
You can debate whether Elon Musk honestly didn’t know all this before purchasing Twitter from his good friend Jack Dorsey, and/or what the scenario of owner/operator motive actually is. Decide for yourself, but with public statements it genuinely looks like Musk didn’t know.
Regardless of foreknowledge, I feel confident the conflicting and odd data points only reconcile in one direction. The State Dept started it, but now DHS, via CISA, controls Twitter.
Wittingly or unwittingly (you decide) Elon Musk is now the face of a quasi govt controlled enterprise.
If you concur with my researched assessment, then what you see being released by Elon Musk in the Twitter Files is actually a filtered outcome as a result of this new ownership dynamic.
Put simply, DHS stakeholders, to include the DOJ, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), are mitigating any consequential public exposure of their domestic surveillance activity by controlling and feeding Mr. Musk selected information about their prior Twitter operations. DHS is still the ghost in the machine.
TikTok is to Beijing as Twitter is to Washington DC.
The larger objective of U.S. involvement in social media has always been monitoring and surveillance of the public conversation, and then ultimately controlling and influencing public opinion.
Mr. Elon Musk and his team are combing through millions of lines of algorithmic code, trying to find that “fundamental part” that will deliver their own ‘ah-ha’ moment. Until then, we keep watching and smiling… (Much more: Conservative Treehouse, 2/07/2023) (Archive)
Wow, Stengel is explicitly saying that GEC is deceiving the American public! That’s what “propaganda” means.
What he forgot to mention is that GEC was used to sway US elections. @DOJPH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2023
3) The Twitter files exposed Hamilton 68 as a scam.
Yoel Roth, former Twitter head of Trust & Safety, said:
“Hamilton 68 accused legitimate American accounts of being Russian bots… There is no evidence to support their statements.”
Video by👉@0rfhttps://t.co/BHaUwtHUJ5 pic.twitter.com/UTlV9iLJlH
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 7, 2023
5) Like many other government “disinfo experts,” Richard Stengel can’t stop promoting disinfo.
• Steele dossier
• Russian collusion
• Russian bounties
• Fine people hoaxWhich makes sense considering he’s “not against” using propaganda against the American people. pic.twitter.com/TDYVPfEYv4
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 7, 2023
7) Richard Stengel’s GEC worked with this DHS-backed censorship network to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19.
They used AI to systematically censor entire narratives at scale.https://t.co/Y9VvBvNlsu
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 7, 2023
9) @elonmusk is right to call the State Department’s GEC “a threat to our democracy.”
The State Department’s “chief propagandist,” Richard Stengel, exemplifies why freedom of speech is a fundamental human right that must be defended at all costs.https://t.co/alTZwB0Mlq
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 7, 2023
Richard Stengel is joined on NewsGuard's Board of Advisors by former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who FFO has covered extensively for his role in the "Transatlantic Flank Attack" on Internet censorship on the Europe side of NATO pic.twitter.com/a109vzyUl4
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 8, 2023