Now Pres. Macky Sall @Macky_Sall flirts with same destructive idea.
I was working from #Senegal in 2012 & saw how far then-President Wade had gone astray from initial high hopes.
Like bringing in North Koreans to erect a pricey monument, then demanding a 35% cut of ticket prices because he felt the idea was his intellectual property.
When Pres. Wade tried to extend his term in 2012, #Senegal's people backed him down.
Be wary of OSINT-branded accounts recycling faked & old footage of airstrikes, explosions, interceptions etc.
It happens every time, but in New Twitter they have a direct financial incentive to push out inflammatory nonsense.
There's more 1/
2/ The annoying practice of some OSINT-branded accounts of repeating headlines ginned up & borrowed from somewhere without citation as if it's their own...
Is reckless & dangerous during fast moving conflict where there is huge potential for *consequential* misunderstandings.
3/ Exercise extreme caution in what you amplify & believe.
Twitter is awash with a flood tide of falsehoods tonight.
Some is the work of people trying to farm revenue.
And some is disinformation seeking to seed specific false perceptions.