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How covert government agents infiltrate the Internet to “manipulate, deceive, and destroy reputations.” In this shocking piece, Greenwald publishes a copy of a spy training manual used entitled: “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.” Greenwald writes that agencies like the NSA are “attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.” Greenwald writes: Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2)to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.-Glenn Greenwalds series of articles in response to Edward Snowdens release of NSA docs. drleonardcoldwell/2014/09/25/internet-trolls-may-be-trained-government-agents-according-to-leaked-document/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:28:53 +0000

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