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Here's a real shocker!! The gubment manipulating social media for it's own ends!
"Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann.
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin
Noticed any on FR?
… Hackers regularly target various web pages. Evaluations of IP log files show that not only Monsanto visits the pages regularly, but also various organizations of the U.S. government,
Monitoring system to globally track false social media claims on dangers of vaccines
"Real-time monitoring and analysis of vaccine concerns could help governments and public health officials locally, nationally,and globally understand where they should focus their attention and resources when a concern arises,and where specific vaccines might need more tailored engagement strategies," Dr Larson said.
… scientists would also be able to immediately enter public debates about vaccination,while in the past they often only became aware of issues when it was too late to offer their expertise.
To the extent these operations are aimed at FOREIGN populations, they have some legitimate utility (not unlike VOA broadcasts into the USSR).
Of course we’ve learned that in THIS administration, such is rarely the case.
Between 2008 and 2011 I wrote for a now defunct conservative website in the Carolina’s. We kept watch on the IP addresses of site visitors and were able to track consistent comments and log ons to the Navy out of VA, HOMELAND SECURITY, and the WHITE HOUSE.
It was eerie and I wrote an article about these strange visitors to a local political site. We knew then something was going on.
We were able to track the White House IP address to a particular office related to White House security but I cannot recall the name. Like an idiot, I just googled White House Security...so I will most probably be hearing the black helicopters circling in three, two, one....