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Note: there was belief at Twitter that the State Department agency GEC was pushing Mike Pompeo’s complaints about China/COVID. How true that was is still a somewhat open question, but execs for sure believed there were “major risks” in working with GEC with an election ahead.
7:07 PM · Jan 3, 2023
GEC = Global Engagement Center
What is GEC???
@elonmusk
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US govt agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists & Canadian officials!
mtaibbi
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11.The GEC report appeared based on DHS data circulated earlier that week, and included accounts that followed “two or more” Chinese diplomatic accounts. They reportedly ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long, and included Canadian officials and a CNN account: