Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets

Taylor Swift not too long ago confirmed up in a Pentagon report. Why is the DoD studying concerning the world’s most well-known pop star? The reply appears to be: As a result of folks on the web have been speaking about her and the Protection Division displays the entire web.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein managed to get ahold of an intelligence report that mentions the singer. The report comes from the Joint Navy Info Help Operations Net Operations Heart (JMWC), a little-known company below Particular Operations Command that’s tasked with monitoring social media and “counter[ing] hostile propaganda and disinformation” by psychological operations work, Klippenstein writes, citing a authorities report.

The report discovered that there was “appreciable anxiousness amongst social media customers” after the cancellation of a number of Swift live shows earlier this month. These live shows have been scheduled to be held in Vienna however have been canceled after threats from alleged would-be terrorists. Plenty of younger males have been arrested in connection to an obvious plot to kill folks en masse. The suspects had allegedly deliberate to detonate explosive devices at the concerts.

Understandably, these plots freaked out lots of people, a indisputable fact that the Pentagon apparently needed to monitor the web to determine. “A substantial variety of netizens have voiced their apprehensions relating to the rising international threats posed by ISIS,” the report states. Should you’re pondering this all feels like a tempest in a teapot and a waste of presidency sources, effectively, Klippenstein notes: “A Pentagon inspector common analysis of the middle’s effectiveness found that the workforce lacked clear coverage and oversight” in 2023.

Swift has been tied up in all kinds of political intrigue over the previous few months. Because the presidential election has heated up, Swift has develop into a discursive pawn in each Democrats’ and Republicans’ battle to win hearts and minds. Earlier this yr, Republicans have been busy with the conspiracy principle that Swift was a Pentagon “PSYOP.” Extra not too long ago, amidst rumors that Swift might show up on the Democratic Nationwide Committee to endorse Kamala Harris, the MAGA political sphere has been in a kind of panic. Not way back, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image and seemed to imply that Swift had endorsed him. Upon discovering out that the picture was faux (and after it was made obvious that Swift may sue him for spreading the imagery), Trump denounced AI.