The Minerva Initiative and the Weaponization of Information: What you Need to Know #shorts

Since 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense has funded research into the use of information / social media for strategic influence campaigns. The program, called "The Minerva Research Initiative" was a "DoD sponsored, University Based, Social Science Research Program".

The research performed under this program may be a driving force behind the renewed push to ban TikTok in the United States and it has striking parallels to new revelations about coordination between the United States Government and Twitter that have recently come to light in the Twitter Files.