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Pentagon Rejects Fox News Conspiracy About Taylor Swift Being Recruited as an Asset

The Pentagon has issued a response shutting down a Fox News conspiracy that Taylor Swift is an agency asset for combatting online misinformation.

Jesse Watters recently suggested that the agency's psychological operations unit once pitched the idea of turning the singer into "an asset for combating misinformation online" In fact, she often encourages them to dig for clues about her upcoming music releases — like whether the snake print boots she was photographed in this week were hinting at a return to her Reputation era. The host claimed that the mission began about four years ago and backed up his theory with a clip from a 2019 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence conference where a presenter used Swift as an example of a powerful influencer.

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