Loose Tweets Sink Fleets

A variation of the "Loose lips sink ships" theme that I only came across yesterday.



Check out the article How "loose lips sink ships" was updated for modern war times for more information or listen to the CBC podcast (@ 13:10 mins).

Back during the Second World War, a new kind of "Don't Do It" advertising campaign was born.

It was a dangerous time. There were spies and intelligence operations hidden around the country. So the U.S. government created a poster. The visual showed a warship on fire, sinking in the ocean. The words said: "Loose lips might sink ships."

The goal was to discourage casual chatter about troop deployment and ship lanes that could be shared during pillow talk or between departing soldiers and their families. Critical information that would benefit the enemy. The Canadian version of the poster dropped the word "might" to be even more direct, saying: "Loose lips sink ships."

Decades later, in 2018, the Navy updated that famous World War II poster.

They wanted servicemen and women to think twice about posting photos of war ships, manoeuvres and navy personnel on social media. The imagery stayed the same - a war ship on fire sinking in the ocean - but the words were changed to: "Loose Tweets Sink Fleets."


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