The pop star’s name came up in a 2019 “psyop” presentation that surfaced recently
The notion that the US military could be using songstress Taylor Swift in psychological operations is a conspiracy theory, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Swift, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, was named Time’s 2023 Person of the Year and continues to dominate the headlines in the US media. On Tuesday, Fox News Primetime host Jesse Waters suggested the Pentagon’s psychological operations division might have had a hand in that.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh reacted by sending Politico a statement filled with references to Swift’s song titles.
“As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off,” Singh wrote. “But that does highlight that we still need Congress to approve our supplemental budget request as Swift-ly as possible so we can be ‘out of the woods’ with potential fiscal concerns.”
Both ‘Shake if Off’ and ‘Out of the Woods’ are from Swift’s 2014 album ‘1989.’
In a five-minute segment on Tuesday, Waters played an excerpt from an August 2019 presentation by the Pentagon’s psychological operations unit, which used Swift as an example of an influencer that could be used in “a psyop for combating online misinformation.”
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