Posted on 03/17/2011 7:40:37 AM PDT by plainolamerican
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with the US Central Command (Centcom) to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities at once.
The contract stipulates each persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 controllers must be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries".
The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet.
They are going to need more controllers than that from the anti-American comments I see on Facebook!
And our government never, ever lies to us and always keeps its promises.
/sarc
Rush was all over this about three weeks ago— but he said it was the Dept. of Commerce letting contracts.
I’m going to start a Facebook page and tell everyone to like me. Yeah, that’ll work, the whole world will love me.
Utterly ridiculous. The leftist obviously think 'social media' is their own private PR playground.
Pro-American is considered propaganda....
According to liberals, this must not be allowed.
We might think about spreading pro-American propaganda in America at online forums. I can think of a couple of sites.
I don't believe people are that easily manipulated.
But if you are right about people not being easily manipulated, how can you explain the Kardashian sisters’ income of $65M last year?
Seeking bids to do it I think. No details on whether the program ever got off the ground.
An alternate MO is to manipulate American’s responses to pre-election media content. If it takes a billion dollars to win the presidency, there’s no reason to think this kind of stuff is off the table.
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