US spy operation that manipulates social media

[cake]

Nice new jobs for soldiers:

The US military is developing software that will let it 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 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.

guardian.co.uk/technology/20 … NTCMP=SRCH

[urodacus]

you get 50c per post.

[divea]

I remember exactly the same thread, but for China, and how everyone was clambering to get in a word about how horrible the Chinese govt. is.

Isn’t this article late by atleast 15 years??? Is anybody still that naive to think that the US (or any other country that uses computers) does not have tech spies, or tech propoganda - ists.

[Fortigurn]

@divea

Isn’t this article late by atleast 15 years??? Is anybody still that naive to think that the US (or any other country that uses computers) does not have tech spies, or tech propoganda - ists.

Even more naive to imagine that the US government can afford the kind of sophisticated system corporations have undoubtedly been using for years.

[yuli]

@cake

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas

I do that without any special software. What’s the problem?

[TheGingerMan]

@yuli

[quote=“cake”]The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas

I do that without any special software. What’s the problem?[/quote]
Classic!