Tag: Propaganda

“Online Persona Management Services” to Allow CIA, etc., to Control Social Media Conversations

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“Online Persona Management Services” to Allow CIA, etc., to Control Social Media Conversations
CENTCOM responded to the news with its typical openness and candor: “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable CENTCOM to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US,” said spokesman Bill Speaks (how’s that for a sock puppet name, huh?) But of course the internet is international in nature. The contract calls for the sock puppet controllers to employ something called “traffic mixing,” which intends to blend the online presence of the false persona with that of people outside of the operation, in a way that will provide, “...excellent cover and deniability.”

CNN article concern-trolls promotion calling breastfeeding natural because it may make other things–like vaccination–seem less so

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CNN article concern-trolls promotion calling breastfeeding natural because it may make other things–like vaccination–seem less so
Martucci and Barnhill state: “...we are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the ‘natural’ way to feed infants...Promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier. This may ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination.”