In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit [1]. Coming at a time when foreign interference in politics and society was the primary issue in U.S. politics, the story was, astoundingly, almost completely ignored in the mainstream press [2]. Only one U.S. outlet of any note picked it up, and that journalist was forced of the profession weeks later [4,5].
In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit [1]. Coming at a time when foreign interference in politics and society was the primary issue in U.S. politics, the story was, astoundingly, almost completely ignored in the mainstream press [2]. Only one U.S. outlet of any note picked it up, and that journalist was forced of the profession weeks later [4,5].
[1] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-pa...
[2] https://fair.org/home/media-ignore-unmasking-of-twitter-exec...
[3] Searching "Gordon MacMillan site:url" finds no relevant articles on theguardian.com, bbc.com, bbc.co.uk, nytimes.com, cnn.com, msnbc.com, latimes.com, theatlantic.com, or foxnews.com
[4] https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-journalist-tareq-hadd...
[5] https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-sy...