[Noisebridge-discuss] /sockpuppets

maestro maestro415 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 18:01:52 UTC 2012


<Filming Cops <https://www.facebook.com/FilmingCops?ref=stream>>
WASHINGTON, DC -- The US Government is stepping up its cyber propaganda.
With new "Persona Management" software, a single agent can control 10 or
more fake personas ("sockpuppets") to spread fake stories and images in
order to manipulate public opinion. That same agent can leave
pro-government comments or otherwise troll key areas on social media
networks.

Critics will likely 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.

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.

US GOVERNMENT STEPPING UP ITS CYBER PROPAGANDA
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlvrbaiDdZ0>

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