Twitter Executive is Psy-Op Soldier – Middle East Eye
Sept 30, 2019
https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/30/twitter-executive-is-psy-op-soldier-middle-east-eye/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190930195711/https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/30/twitter-executive-is-psy-op-soldier-middle-east-eye/


The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, Middle East Eye has established.

Apparently, Gordon McMillan – twitter’s head of editorial for Europe, Middle East and Africa – not only works for the British government, but is a reservist in the 77th Brigade.

In case you don’t know what the 77th Brigade is, it’s a “counter-intelligence” unit set up to “combat disinformation” on social media.

Translation: They spread pro-Western propaganda on Twitter and Facebook. The unit was announced in 2015, in response – you can imagine – to a series of losses on the information warfare front, mainly re: Syria and Ukraine.

The Guardian happily reported it at the time, calling them “Facebook Warriors”:

The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare in the information age.