Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets

Taylor Swift precocious showed up successful a Pentagon report. Why is the DoD speechmaking astir the world’s astir celebrated popular star? The reply seems to be: Because radical connected the net were talking astir her and the Defense Department monitors the full internet.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein managed to get ahold of an quality study that mentions the singer. The study comes from the Joint Military Information Support Operations Web Operations Center (JMWC), a little-known bureau nether Special Operations Command that is tasked with monitoring societal media and “counter[ing] hostile propaganda and disinformation” done intelligence operations work, Klippenstein writes, citing a authorities report.

The study recovered that determination was “considerable anxiousness among societal media users” aft the cancellation of respective Swift concerts earlier this month. Those concerts were scheduled to beryllium held successful Vienna but were canceled after threats from alleged would-be terrorists. A fig of young men were arrested successful transportation to an evident crippled to termination radical en masse. The suspects had allegedly planned to detonate explosive devices astatine the concerts.

Understandably, those plots freaked retired a batch of people, a information that the Pentagon seemingly had to show the net to fig out. “A sizeable fig of netizens person voiced their apprehensions regarding the expanding planetary threats posed by ISIS,” the study states. If you’re reasoning this each sounds similar a tempest successful a teapot and a discarded of authorities resources, well, Klippenstein notes: “A Pentagon inspector wide valuation of the center’s effectiveness found that the squad lacked wide argumentation and oversight” successful 2023.

Swift has been tied up successful each sorts of governmental intrigue implicit the past fewer months. As the statesmanlike predetermination has heated up, Swift has go a discursive pawn successful some Democrats’ and Republicans’ conflict to triumph hearts and minds. Earlier this year, Republicans were engaged with the conspiracy mentation that Swift was a Pentagon “PSYOP.” More recently, amidst rumors that Swift mightiness amusement up astatine the Democratic National Committee to endorse Kamala Harris, the MAGA governmental sphere has been successful a benignant of panic. Not agelong ago, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated representation and seemed to connote that Swift had endorsed him. Upon uncovering retired that the representation was fake (and aft it was made evident that Swift could writer him for spreading the imagery), Trump denounced AI.