Thread by @hiddenmarkov

Another perspective on the gigwork fire-targeting story:
According to @ByronTau who has been reporting on Premise for the last 6 months, there is a possibility that the tasks were issued by Western intelligence (not Russian), as Premise has deep ties to the US intel community.

https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/1497624827422720002

In this scenario, I imagine that Ukraine counterintel could have detained suspicious folks checking on the infamous mysterious markings on roofs/roads:
facebook.com/Ukravtodor.Gov…

They could have seen they have the Premise app installed, incorrectly concluded the tasks were issued by Russia for fire targeting, and officially reported this:
facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…

If this is true, then this is a disastrously harmful idea by the Western intel — nudging folks in the conflict area to engage in a very suspicious activity for literally pennies.

cc @alexrewrew

Just to be clear, the possibility outlined above is a conjecture.