Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (Guardian)

[Canuckistanian]

General David Petraeus

Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain
The Guardian, Thursday 17 March 2011 13.19 GMT

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.

Centcom said it was not targeting any US-based web sites, in English or any other language, and specifically said it was not targeting Facebook or Twitter.

Yeah, right.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

[peace13]

1. Dudes, it would be much easier to make good policy ...we can spread it on our own.

You will never succeed. Your kind stick out like a sore thumb. Be safe and have a good one!