2. US Military Manipulates the Social Media

The US military is developing software that will allow it to secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop an “online persona management service” that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to ten separate identities based all over the world. 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 be able to manage false identities from their workstations.

The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a program called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al Qaeda supporters and other extremists resisting the US military and political presence in Iraq. This effort proved successful and is now being used elsewhere in the Middle East and beyond with assurances that none of these interventions would happen here at home, as it would be unlawful to “address US audiences” with such technology.

Source:

“Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media,” Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain, Guardian, March 17, 2011.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

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guest

This article repeats itself. Take a look.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=885510323 Thomas Remme

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Guest

This article repeats itself. Take a look.
Ingsoc

Orwell’s 1984 has arrived.
Cjean

2 ppl to manage 10 accounts? i know teens that do better than that!
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Anonymous

Changing something bad to something good…

Then I should also add some more accounts. :-)
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Sid1

They are using something like this on the Amazon Uk discussion forums. When someone posted something about 9/11 saying that he was a specialist in demolition and the fact & figures on the collapsed buildings did not add up, about 10 people immediately piled in and very aggressively denounced him. I checked their Amazon profiles and they were all minimal profiles, non of them had bought anything or reviewed a product. Yet they had the time to sit from 9 am to 5pm denouncing this poor guy!
http://twitter.com/quiquito69 Francisco Castro

Thin is Cjean they do not have the same kind of power that the USA has nor do they listen online to people they dislike, I fisrt read about it only three or four months ago while doing research on the new media and participation in liberal democracies, i thought it was not being monitered as it should given the significancy that this new medium posses.
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Follow this link for a very informative and educative article on social media and the listening that goverments will engage in, #wikileaks #OMEL its already happening.
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Everything happens for tomorrows perfectness and sustainity!
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Everything happens for tomorrows perfectness and sustainity!
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Klaatu

No, it would “never be used ‘here’”. Let’s write a letter to Santa Claus. The empire knows no laws and knows no ethics. It does prove, however, that the Internet and social media scare the elites, and that is good!
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Allanornstein

Just read a new book, Wealth vs.
Work: How 1% Victimize 99%. It’s about the vanishing

American dream- a shrinking middle class, increased poverty
and inequality. It’s about a return to the old aristocratic order, a world
where hereditary privilege and power trump excellence and merit and where
ordinary people, and those who are less able and less vigorous, are trampled by
greed, materialism and crony capitalism. It’s about Wall Street vs. Main Street, and
about the economic decline of labor unions and working people. It’s a gritty
book!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M3OHS3RF5JAVUCCQ2Q6CW3YZAM yurbud

If you’ve ever been on a discussion board where paid trolls show up, you know that this won’t work. It is obvious and annoying, but on the plus side, it lets you know the oligarchs are afraid of us talking to each other.
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http://profile.yahoo.com/SWEW2AOBIL6ODOXPVSOMUHYVMA Todd

the sad thing is this type of stuff works on so many feeble minds
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6R7QEZGLWETDVCGL2NHUTWCJQQ George

“The approach worked well in Iraq?” Oh yes, the US won the war in Iraq. I heard it from a guy in a discussion group. :)
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Thank you. It confirmed what I already thought and experienced.
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Actually there are not much discussion boards – isn’t it?
Most good ones I know of, are closed meanwhile.
I guess they have a new straegy.
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I know in the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous,we have a saying from our literature,
“Our secrets keep us sick”
Seams like lots of secrets here.
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That’s just a conspiracy theory, nothing to see here people, go back to sleep, trust Big brother, your government loves you.
ozzythaman

why try to manipulate view of reality instead of confronting it and adapting with better ways?
wqw

ever read ender’s game? very similar
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Guest

nah, we are just noticing it.
it has been here a long time.
read about project indect: that is also very fucked up.