Twitter worker acknowledges company’s role in Pentagon disinformation campaign
One of the lesser reported revelations from the Twitter hearing was an admission from Yoel Roth that the U.S. Department of Defense asked Twitter to whitelist certain accounts it was using to engaging in a disinformation campaign in the Middle East. That propaganda effort, first reported by The Intercept last year, led to a network of accounts spreading news and memes intended to steer public opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait.
“That request was made of Twitter,” Roth said during the hearing. “To be clear, when I found out about that activity, I was appalled by it.”
