Far-right Fox News host believes 'girlboss' Taylor Swift is part of 'Pentagon psyop' conspiracy
During a Tuesday night, October 9 broadcast, Fox News' Jesse Watters claimed that Taylor Swift is part of a "Pentagon psyop" conspiracy.
Watters told viewers, "Have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this? Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A psy-op for combatting online misinformation."
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The Fox News host tried to make his case by citing a video that MAGA Republican and Donald Trump ally Jeffrey Clark reshared on X, formerly Twitter.
The Daily Beast's William Vaillancourt notes, "That video was an excerpt from the 2019 International Conference on Cyber Conflict, which was held in Estonia and organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCD COE). The speaker in the clip is Alicia Marie Bargar, a research engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who appears to simply mention Swift as an example of the power of influencers with large followings."
Watters and Clark aren't the only ones on the far right who have been promoting conspiracy theories involving Swift.
Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller, on December 6, 2023, tweeted, "What's happening with Taylor Swift is not organic."
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Jack Posobiec claimed that Swift's "girlboss psyop has been fully activated."
Nonetheless, Watters acknowledged that he "obviously has no evidence" that Swift is "a front for a covert political agenda."
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