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Revealed: U.S. Spy Operation That Manipulates Social Media
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:17:39 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Guardian. [snip] The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, 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. [snip] More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-ne tworks FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNgsC9q1pz9mNUZTMRAtCFAJwO9hBGtq58SgjvHwVSjS07wFkENgCfUJ5Z ESJRFtmx9xe+6bWRdvk+LvU= =eVte -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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