*The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of
FBI Agents **
*
June 21st, 2022
By Alan Macleod
*SAN FRANCISCO – *Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late,
hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment
and recruitment websites, /MintPress/ has ascertained that the social
media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from
the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust,
safety and content.
Chief amongst these is the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The FBI is
generally known as a domestic security and intelligence force. However,
it has recently expanded its remit into cyberspace. “The FBI’s
investigative authority is the broadest of all federal law enforcement
agencies,” the “About” section of its website
<https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/what-are-the-primary-investigative-functions-of-the-fbi>
informs readers. “The FBI has divided its investigations into a number
of programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign
counterintelligence [and] cyber crime,” it adds.
For example, in 2019, Dawn Burton
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Dawn-B.png>
(the former director of Washington operations for Lockheed Martin) was
poached from her job as senior innovation advisor to the director at the
FBI to become senior director of strategy and operations for legal,
public policy, trust and safety at Twitter. The following year, Karen
Walsh
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Karen-Walsh-scaled.jpg>
went straight from 21 years at the bureau to become director of
corporate resilience at the silicon valley giant. Twitter’s deputy
general counsel and vice president of legal, Jim Baker
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jim-Baker-scaled.jpg>,
also spent four years at the FBI between 2014 and 2018, where his resumé
notes he rose to the role of senior strategic advisor.
[...]
continua qui:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/twitter-hiring-alarming-number-spooks-secret-agents/281114/
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