Popular Mechanics reports:
A U.S. Air Force aircraft electronically impersonated a Malaysian plane while flying over the South China Sea this week. The RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft flew off China’s Hainan island on Tuesday, coming within 55 miles of the Chinese mainland. The caper was outed on Twitter by a think tank operated by the Chinese government, which provided enough details…
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Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army is Growing
On Wednesday, a horde of Amazon employees rushed to defend the honor of the world’s richest man. From a report: The employees — known as “FC ambassadors,” for Amazon’s Orwellian-sounding “fulfillment center” warehouses — flooded into the mentions of several Twitter users. This isn’t the first time these accounts have attracted attention. Earlier this year, the accounts descended on Twitter with…