Twitter as a US foreign policy and psyops tool?

By at 2:53 pm Thursday, Jan 7

In his Foreign Policy magazine article "Twitter vs. Terror," Senator Richard Lugar proposes that the US government promote social networking services as psyops tools, or as he puts it, a form of "21st-century statecraft" to promote freedom and democracy throughout the world.

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