Jose Manuel Sanchez Pardo is an ordinary Spaniard dedicated to his work, consulting in the technological sector in Galicia, to which no known links neither with the Chinese regime, nor with any of its tentacles. In fact, on his social networks he talks about football and other mundane topics. However, he and several dozen ordinary Spaniards’ Twitter accounts were targeted by the US government, which falsely linked with espionage and communist china propaganda.
This is what emerges from the latest report, issue number 17, of the ‘Twitter Papers‘ released last Thursday by the American journalist, Matt Taibbi. In fact, Taibbi included a spreadsheet with 5,500 usernames on the social networkwhich the US government agency, the Global Engagement Center (GEC) identified in mid-2021, in the Biden era, as suspicious “Chinese accounts” involved in “information manipulation coordinated by the communist apparatus.”
In this list is where the name of users appears as Jose Manuel Sanchez Pardo, Jose Requena, Jorge FerrarYo, Alberto Ferreix…, and that of many other Spaniards who are easily identifiable with a simple access to their accounts, but there are many others who do not use proper names, but who also belong to Spanish citizens who have little or nothing to do with any propaganda operation to favor of the Chinese regime.
The GEC also asked Twitter to review 500 accounts, suspected of distributing foreign disinformation because they allegedly tweeted different messages with a hashtag linking Iran to US President Joe Biden, and used the encrypted application Signal. Twitter’s then head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, responded with “OMG” when he reviewed the US government’s blacklists. In fact, he referred to them as a “complete fraud.” An intelligence source quoted by Taibbi described the Center for Global Engagement as “an incubator for the current US disinformation complex.”
Delirium in the White House
In installment 17 of the Twitter files, journalist Matt Taibbi assured that the United States government finances a group that has dedicated itself to supporting the censorship of dissenting opinions on social networks, including those of American citizens and those of other countries. Taibbi claims that the GEC contracted the services of the Atlantic Council through its digital forensic research lab, which sent a series of blacklists to Twitter.
On June 18, 2021, an analyst from the said laboratory sent to Twitter another spreadsheet with the names of some 40,000 accounts of the social network suspected of “being involved in untruthful behavior in favor of the ruling party in India and nationalism.” Hindu”. However, when to Twitter reports came to him with thousands of accounts, he resisted blocking them for lack of evidence. For example, another list, sent by this body, included dozens of accounts from Western governments and CNN journalists. He Global Participation Center was created in 2016by Obama administration within the structure of Department of Statebut I worked with him fbithe INChe US Strategic Command and other agencies.
Reaction of the Biden Government
In a press release, a State Department spokesperson said that “the global engagement center does not and has never done moderation of content on social media platforms.” “The mission of the Center for Global Participation is to coordinate with other federal agencies, the actions and efforts of the US government to understand the sources and trends in attempts from abroad to distribute, disinformation and propaganda with global reach,” he has qualified.
The ‘Twitter Papers’ are being produced by a team of independent journalists, hired by the company’s new owner. Elon Muskto bring up internal files exposing attempts to suppress free speech in the previous stage. Taibbi and others collaborators in the Twitter archives will appear to explain their work before him House Committee on Justice, next March 9. Today, many Democrats in Congress continue to oppose efforts to investigate the Biden administration’s activities in favor of censorship, accusing those who promote it of being “Putin supporters.”
