Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

[Baobab]

This is one of the more interesting articles Ive read in the past about how sock puppet groups operate.

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

[silvershadow]

1. K&R

[nashville_brook]

2. good reminder as we think about the genesis of #trollgate.

[NewImproved Deal]

3. Yep. The kind of creepy Stasi tactics we can expect in a Clinton Regime...

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[nashville_brook]

5. we're all familiar with HRC's hawkish *foreign* policy, with domestic spying

i wonder how hawkish she'd be w/r/t security issues, domestically.

as if i need to ask. it's rhetorical.

[Dragonfli]

7. I see them (at least the one's here) more as brock puppets than flying monkeys, but both desc. work

[felix_numinous]

4. Being invaded on an open forum

by paid provocateurs, and now AI is an attempt to interfere with our sharing of information here. They know the internet is the last freedom of the press we have and the bastards are now using these bots like moles the way of COINTELPRO. But truth finds a way and we will find it.

Thanks Baobab

[1monster]

6. Is any real anymore?