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Title: Exposed: Twitter Executive in Charge of Middle East is British Army 'PsyOp Officer!
Published: 2019-09-30
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdsDnjddCXk
Title: Exposed: Twitter Executive in Charge of Middle East is British Army 'PsyOp Officer!
Published: 2019-09-30
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdsDnjddCXk
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[Music] hell no everyone here is a hot breaking news item thanks to investigative journalists Ian Cobain with Middle East I the senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a current part-time officer in the British Army's psychological warfare unit Gordon McMillan joined Twitter cooperations UK office six years ago and has been serving in the 77th Brigade for several years the 77th brigade2/5
was formed in 2015 in order to develop non-lethal ways of waging Wars the 77th brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter Instagram and Facebook to wage what the head of the UK military general Nick Carter describes as information warfare the 77th brigades headquarters is located in London it brought together a number of existing military units such as the media Operations Group and 15 psychological Operations3/5
Group at its launch the UK media was told that the new unit of Facebook warriors would be around 1,500 people and made up of both regular soldiers and reservists in recent months the army has been approaching British journalists and asking them to join the unit as reservists Macmillan was a captain in the unit at the end of 2016 according to one British Army publication however the4/5
mo D refused to disclose his current rank for this investigative report Macmillan declined to answer any questions about his role same with Twitter and the UK's Ministry of Defence usual no comments routine great job by Ian Cobain exposing what many should have known already but did not know wonder I've been blacked out by Twitter for the last 27 months especially now that I'm reporting from Turkey