How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Social Media in action. Another release from Greenwald of the "Snowden Files"
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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.
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
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...-manipulation/
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