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Government Corruption
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations
2022-09-20
[WAPO] The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms’ rules.
Excuse me Greenfield, but I believe you have a piece of toilet paper attached to your shoe.
Oh dear. That didn’t go well.
Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, last week instructed the military commands that engage in psychological operations online to provide a full accounting of their activities by next month after the White House and some federal agencies expressed mounting concerns over the Defense Department’s attempted manipulation of audiences overseas, according to several defense and administration officials familiar with the matter.
Paging Mr. Igor Danchenko. Would Mr. Danchenko please report to the white courtesy phone. Mr. Igor Danchenko.
The takedowns in recent years by Twitter and Facebook of more than 150 bogus personas and media sites created in the United States was disclosed last month by internet researchers Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory. While the researchers did not attribute the sham accounts to the U.S. military, two officials familiar with the matter said that U.S. Central Command is among those whose activities are facing scrutiny. Like others interviewed for this report, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.
The legal team of Mr. Elon Musk has not commented on this story but is said to be smiling and exchanging high-five's.
The researchers did not specify when the takedowns occurred, but those familiar with the matter said they were within the past two or three years. Some were recent, they said, and involved posts from the summer that advanced anti-Russia narratives citing the Kremlin’s "imperialist" war in Ukraine and warning of the conflict’s direct impact on Central Asian countries. Significantly, they found that the pretend personas — employing tactics used by countries such as Russia and China — did not gain much traction, and that overt accounts actually attracted more followers.
Yes, I would say 6 January could be considered to be "recent."
Interesting.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#9  I think they are going to cancel a couple of submarine builds to see if they can stack up enough cash to coax Rachael Maddow out of semi-retirement.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-09-20 23:06  

#8   some federal agencies expressed mounting concerns over the Defense Department’s attempted manipulation of audiences overseas

What about audiences here?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-20 18:33  

#7  Wapo is where the spooks and pentagon leak. This seems more like a PR statement, "We hear your concerns." I dont think their sweeping audit will result in much change. The change that will happen is that they will hide their social media assets better from public view. Hybrid Warfare / Cognitive Warfare will not end.
Posted by: mossomo   2022-09-20 13:59  

#6  FBI not wanting to get thrown under tge bus by the Klingons.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-20 08:07  

#5  #3 Makes a lot more sense than any remote vestige of concern about internal misbehavior.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-09-20 08:01  

#4  /\ Very possible.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-20 07:24  

#3  Probably the complaints arose because its a turf war between DoD, FBI and CIA.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-09-20 07:20  

#2  
"Mr. Undersecretary. We are being misrepresented as some kind of superpower out there! And the enemy as some kind of dirty invasive humorless faggot! It's completely topsy turvy, sir!"
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-20 04:43  

#1  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I don't know if some corrupt POS in the polygon of cluelessness ordered it himself or it came down from the supernational corpo masters but it's hilarious.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-20 04:40  

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