Ever notice how sometimes when a troll shows up and you start beating them at their own game, suddenly a few more appear and join the fight alongside the first troll? Hmmmm.... sockpuppets. And the more you know and the more intelligent you are, the more you influence others, the more you are targeted. One use that’s confirmed, however, is the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online “personas” managed by the military. Recently the US Air Force had solicited private sector vendors for something called “persona management software.” Such a technology would allow single individuals to command virtual armies of fake, digital “people” across numerous social media portals. These “personas” were to have detailed, fictionalized backgrounds, to make them believable to outside observers, and a sophisticated identity protection service was to back them up, preventing suspicious readers from uncovering the real person behind the account. They even worked out ways to game geolocating services, so these “personas” could be virtually inserted anywhere in the world, providing ostensibly live commentary on real events, even while the operator was not really present... Then Visible “scores” each post, labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral. It examines how influential a conversation or an author is. (“Trying to determine who really matters,” as Cahill puts it.) Finally, Visible gives users a chance to tag posts, forward them to colleagues and allow them to response through a web interface. worldtruth.tv/cia-admits-full-monitoring-of-facebook-and-other-social-networks/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 02:30:11 +0000
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