Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda
February 25th, 2011Via: PC World:
It’s recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda. It could also be used as surveillance to find public opinions with points of view the powers-that-be didn’t like. It could then potentially have their “fake” people run smear campaigns against those “real” people. As disturbing as this is, it’s not really new for U.S. intelligence or private intelligence firms to do the dirty work behind closed doors.
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Research Credit: Matt
Posted in COINTELPRO, Covert Operations, Dictatorship, Perception Management, Social Engineering, Technology, War | Top Of Page
I’m pretty sure they already have this. They’ve had it for probably 10 years. A lot of shell companies etc…
I find it odd that its being presented as something new.
We need a swarm of killer bees who root out fraud, waste and abuse in the U.S. gov to descend on the other people in the government who are abusing the system by hiring these trough feeding larvae and start biting on them really hard. I know, I know, I have high moral standards. Excuse me.