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Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media - The Guardian
  • janmarboljanmarbol November 2011 +1 -1 (+1 / -0 )
    "...to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.

    The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.

    The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same...." read more--- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

    Agrees: MundusVultDecipi

  • skinny November 2011 +1 -1 (+2 / -0 )
    seems like what is going on at http://occupywallst.org/forum/

    Agrees: marchelo, MundusVultDecipi

  • janmarboljanmarbol November 2011 +1 -1 (+1 / -0 )
    really? Im always on here, never been on theirs but on their FB page I know there are some for sure

    Agrees: MundusVultDecipi

  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi November 2011 +1 -1
    FBI's Cointelpro: "I was just doing my job."
  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi November 2011 +1 -1 (+2 / -0 )
    There are very intense datamining operations working a synnergy with this. Imagine the power of collecting incredible amounts of data daily. Every electronic communication ever sent sorted and filed away constantly. Than taking that data and determining the probability of certain human behavior. The war is on for our minds.

    Agrees: gavemehope, AnotherChris

  • gavemehope November 2011 +1 -1 (+3 / -0 )
    I could not agree more MVD, seems like the military knows that, ask them. Why moral is so important to claim victory as much ass possible, and restrict so much information in the name of security. Then stories of psy ops being used even on some senators leak out earlier this year. Our military understands it, our government, corporations and the media too. The only ones that don't are the general population, that is the problem.

    Agrees: gavemehope, MundusVultDecipi, AnotherChris

  • whitefeather November 2011 +1 -1 (+3 / -0 )
    Makes me feel like I am living in a Sci-fi flick. The general population doesn't grasp the concept of it being a possibility let alone understanding or knowing that it exists.

    Agrees: gavemehope, MundusVultDecipi, AnotherChris

  • Jon November 2011 +1 -1 (+3 / -0 )
    This doesn't surprise me, though it is disturbing to think. Trolls are out here online, there is an abundance, as has been mentioned, at OWS homepage it would seem.

    My advice, ignore trolls altogether and keep focus on proposals, solutions, ideas. It is kind of surreal for sure.

    Agrees: whitefeather, MundusVultDecipi, AnotherChris

  • ZenDogZenDog November 2011 +1 -1
    It isn't new - and I suspect that the former TBD social network closed because these 'sock puppets' got a bit carried away. TBD was a small online network, with funding from what appeared to me to be some strange and powerful interests - and in the run up to the 2008 elections . . . things got strange.

    Some of them appeared to have been paid for by private industry - but then again, that could easily have been just one more lie.

    As long as you know what you stand for, and then stand up, it doesn't really matter what the sock puppets say or do. The key is just stand up.

    I will readily admit the continual fact checking can be a real pain in the ass . . . especially on dial-up . . .

    What's the link to the OWS homepage - I'll check it later tonight.
  • janmarboljanmarbol November 2011 +1 -1
    true, it's not new at all
  • AnotherChris November 2011 +1 -1 (+1 / -0 )
    The scary part is as you have said, that reference to such a weapon is incomprehensible to most... further... that mention of such things may lead the public to think that the one who would inform them of such goings on is suspect themselves, further reinforcing their basic levels of denial.

    How do you tell someone "there's good reason to be paranoid", without appearing paranoid...

    Agrees: whitefeather

  • DurandusDurandus December 2011 +1 -1
    This is a topic that should be regularly revisited, if at least as a reminder on the subversive spirit of counter intelligence propoganda techniques...with a suspicious eye, indeed...caution is sometimes the better part of valour.
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