Twitter hires ‘alarming number’ of US government's ex-FBI agents, feds and spies: Report

Twitter has been hiring a significant number of ex-FBI agents and or former “feds and spies,” an analysis of employment and recruitment websites found. microblogging major has employed “dozens of individuals from national security state to work in fields of security, trust, safety and content," document accessed by MintPress shockingly revealed. “Chief amongst se is Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI is generally known as a domestic security and intelligence force. However, it has recently expanded its remit into cyberspace,” it furr stated. 

analysis discovered that some of former FBI officials have retained important designations at social media company. For instance, FBI veteran Karen Walsh, who served as a special agent for 21 years, was me  director of corporate resilience at Silicon Valley-based company. Or roles were held by former employees of  Central Intelligence Agency and NATO think-tank Atlantic Council. 

“Twitter also directly employs active army officers," analysi found. 

In 2019,  he of editorial for Twitter's entire Europe, Middle East and Africa region Gordon Macmillan was in fact, an officer in British Army’s notorious 77th Brige. This military unit was dedicated to online warfare and psychological operations. When independently verified, some of  top managers and employees at Twitter were found to be  employees of United States security service and spy agency. Former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley told MintPress that some of se agents alrey have ir eye on post-retirement jobs, which includes Twitter. “ truth is that at FBI 50% of all normal conversations that people h were about how you were going to make money after retirement,” he was quoted as saying by agency. 

Twitter's big claims about 'neutrality' debunked

While Twitter makes big claims about "neutrality," its record of hiring personnel mostly from US national security organizations puts to question  company's standing. Twitter with those s of employees are undoubtedly, “ source of some of largest and most extensive influence operations in world," analysis stated. firm "views every problem in same manner as US government does – and act accordingly,” MintPress warned, ding that it also analysed lists compiled by Twitter of countries struggling with  disinformation and political divide.

"One cannot help noticing that this list correlates quite closely to a hit list of US government versaries. All countries carry out disinfo campaigns to a certain extent. But se ‘former’ spooks and feds are unlikely to point finger at ir former colleagues or sister organizations or investigate ir operations,” MintPress stated. For instance, labels and warnings are ded to state-affiliated media of Russia, China, Iran and Cuba, generally hostile countries to United States. 

In anor shocking aspect that links role of US government agencies in controlling social media platforms, it was found that Facebook entered into a formal partnership with Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab. This arrangement largely governs feeds of over 2.9 billion users worldwide, and y also help decide what content to promote or withhold. Meta has employed  former NATO Press Secretary Ben Nimmo as its he of intelligence, report claimed. MintPress claims that it has found top sites such as Reddit and various US media outlets with an impact such as Thomson Reuters and ors employing former spies. 

"One of media’s primary functions is to serve as a fourth estate; a force that works to hold government and its agencies to account. Yet inste of doing that, increasingly it is collaborating with m. Such are se increasing interlocking connections that it is becoming increasingly difficult to see where big government ends and big media begins,” report suggested.