[vnathan]

"Bloggers beware: You may be punk'd by the Pentagon"

That annoying teen with a strange political bent on your blog may in fact be an aging US army sergeant spewing American propaganda, while also impersonating a 13-year old girl on your buddies Twitter.

A new US military spy operation takes manipulation to a new level, using social media to tackle the online world. America’s new 'sock puppet' software allows the military to simultaneously create multiple fake online identities to spread a pro-American message.

Nope, you are not being spammed. You have been targeted! You are so popular on Twitter, Facebook or where ever else you might spend your time online that the government wants to comment on your blog, many, many times to make sure their message is the loudest.

You can block them, report it as spam, but it will not work. The views will keep coming back. The military has awarded a contract to a California company to make sure of that.

The new software creates a super online persona management service allowing military members to control multiple online identities at once. The personas are generated to boast a convincing back story, a history and required supporting information. In addition, up to at least 50 controllers need to be able to operate their false identities from their government computers concurrently – "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries," of course.

To ensure diversity among the face identifies, the system will use one US server and eight abroad to ensure the American message comes from a global perspective.

One the system is fully in place American service members can cozy up at their computers at any and all hours to respond to messages across the social web multiple times and on multiple websites. The same service member can deny bombings in Afghanistan under an assumed American, French or even an Afghan identity while also promoting US humanitarian aid in Japan under a Japanese pen name and systematically promote revolution in Latin America – or anywhere else they so choose.

The military however claims, while it can certainly do these things, they plan to only focus on “blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US,” according to Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks.

He explained it would be unlawful to “address US audiences" with the technology and the online profiles would be in non-English script. However, laws not prevented the military from acting out of line in the past – including recent revelations the US army attempted to sue psychological manipulations against US senators to garner increased Afghan war funding.

Interestingly enough, impersonation in the US is a criminal offense. Once can be subjected to jail time if found guilty of doing so, online or off. The military US does not seem too concerned.

- Russia Today

Outrageous! Do they think they own the goddamn internet?

[commondenom]

actually they think they own the world......expect anonymous to retaliate soon

fuckers, luckily i generally ignore pro american ranting as much as i ignore pro religioun ranting.....maybe we have a few of these so called personalities on this site...there are a few flag waving military types on here

[vnathan]

The noose is tightening. What used to be a free world is being wracked by controlled opinions and what not.

I would put a statistic of about 50% of the whole Libyan drama as being an outright lie by the American media.

[commondenom]

it's definately a fabricated uprising to increase profit....this is the way if the world right now and why money must be removed from society

[vnathan]

It is. Why would a peaceful nation suddenly erupt into such violence. If the Lockerbie bomber was welcomed by the people there as some sort of hero, why would they all rebel and now 'request' foreign intervention?

[AmericanIllusions]

Originally Posted by vnathan ↗

The noose is tightening. What used to be a free world is being wracked by controlled opinions and what not.

I would put a statistic of about 50% of the whole Libyan drama as being an outright lie by the American media.

You can't say too much of that stuff w/o someone making a tinfoil joke toward you. I never bought that uprishing shit for a second but I had little proof and alot of speculation that I know is spot on.

'It's not about what you know, it's about what you can proove- Denzel in "Training Day"

I know for a fact I've seen this practice on WSHH, a site that targets YBMs under the guise of Hip Hop but it's just a filthy site that shows porn to kids.

1984 is here

[vnathan]

True that...but the hypocrisy is clear. The people of the west have been brainwashed into thinking that he is some sort of madman. But infact, he is the only man who can run that country.

Looks like France took a gamble and lost.

[Blewvane]

He's been in power for a long time and has not been a threat to the western world, he just wants to be left alone.

[rob666]

Originally Posted by Blewvane ↗

He's been in power for a long time and has not been a threat to the western world, he just wants to be left alone.

No unlike Cuba for the last 35 years.......

[niknik]

You all are crazy, other countries and Islamic groups have been doing this same shit for years. America is losing the propaganda battle in many countries because their people never hear our side. Al jazera is a extremists propaganda mouth piece across the arab world. American news is not a government tool as some of you believe. So the government has to answer to these extremists who spew lies across muslim countries. This is something that should have been done years ago, and vnathen there not getting on Facebook to target any of us. Its to reply or give a side to stories put out by al jazera because they are extremely bias and hide much of the truth.