Twitter worked behind the scenes with the Pentagon to aid in the U.S. military’s covert influence operations overseas, according to newly revealed internal documents that show the company broke its pledge to never help advance any government’s disinformation schemes.
Adding to recent revelations of Twitter’s coordination with federal law enforcement and intelligence officials to ban domestic users and censor their posts, the latest installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” shows company executives working with the Pentagon despite Twitter’s pledge to detect and disrupt state-backed information operations on its platform.