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Blackmoore writes:
Glen Greenwald at The Intercept has published another expose on how western intelligence agencies are attempting to control and manipulate online discourse.
The newest article from Greenwald is based around a document from JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group), a previously secret unit of Britan's GCHQ. Entitled "The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations", the document outlines tactics used to achieve JTRIG's purposes of (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.
From the article: "The broader point is... these surveillance agencies have vested themselves with the power to deliberately ruin people's reputations and disrupt their online political activity even though they've been charged with no crimes, and even though their actions have no conceivable connection to terrorism or even national security threats."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:26AM
Thank you for posting this. I learned a lot. I founded a grassroots political organization in 2003 and despite all the many challenges involved don't believe we were ever infiltrated in any of the ways described here. But reading this document, I understand how easily that could have happened. It's a lot of food for thought.