InfoWar by US military using fake accounts since 2012

Discussion in 'Politics' started by earth_imperator, Sep 21, 2022.

  1. As everybody knows the West had accused Russia of using fake accounts to influence elections in the West.

    But look what now got discovered by researchers: it's the US military who uses fake news posted via fake accounts since 2012 (!) :
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...on-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/
    "
    Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations
    Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.
    By Ellen Nakashima, September 19, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
    [...]
    "

    See also this research report (PDF):
    "UNHEARD VOICE - Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations",
    by Graphika Stanford Internet Observatory Cyber Policy Center, published August 24, 2022
    https://public-assets.graphika.com/...internet_observatory_report_unheard_voice.pdf
     
    Last edited: Sep 21, 2022