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Interesting post:
This is no longer “conspiracy theory” it’s a public fact: US military operation is currently being conducted to manipulate US social media.
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The US military has developed software that will let it *secretly* manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread its 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 each chosen US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based around 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, change the narrative, 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 organizations to do the same. The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations “without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries”.
Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US.” Google it.