It is not the same. The US government does not partially own Instagram or Twitter, and I've never seen pro-US narratives driven on either platform. I usually see the opposite if anything.
US control over tech companies is a bit subtler than that and mostly manifests in certain people going through a revolving door between the executive suite in tech companies and some job in the military-industrial complex, as well as lucrative government contracts for the companies (look at how the deal was done for cloud services for the Pentagon).
It's _extremely_ common for people with NSA or similar experience to have very senior positions at US tech companies, and there's a reason for that. It's nothing formal, it's more that having friendly people on both sides of the fence is mutually beneficial for the government and for those companies.
It's _extremely_ common for people with NSA or similar experience to have very senior positions at US tech companies, and there's a reason for that. It's nothing formal, it's more that having friendly people on both sides of the fence is mutually beneficial for the government and for those companies.