Big Brother Wants To Be Your Friend
May, 2016
The social media presence of our government's intelligence agencies is hilariously upbeat and quietly insidious. Welcome to the new wave of friendly propaganda The CIA joined the social media age in 2014 by blasting out the satirical message "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet." That inaugural post to Twitter, retweeted more than 300,000 times, was followed by CIA director John Brennan announcing the agency's new social media strategy. "We have importan...
