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There's a reason the US military put a psychological operations center next to the Googleplex. Merkle is absolutely on the right track. It's been shown study a
by jwtadvice 10y ago
There's a reason the US military put a psychological operations center next to the Googleplex.
Merkle is absolutely on the right track. It's been shown study after study and history after history that information providers - be they news, aggregators or indexers - have an incredible amount of power over large populations.
I'm just afraid that what Merkle means is that they could 'distort perception' away from the perception she'd like to see people have and that this may justify working with these companies to "undistort perception".
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- SilasX 10y ago>There's a reason the US military put a psychological operations center next to the Googleplex. Wait, what center are you referring to here?
- jwtadvice 10y agohttps://goo.gl/maps/PQeunyb77Y72 https://goo.gl/maps/PQeunyb77Y72 Trying to redetermine the Psyops Unit positioned there. Keep coming up with Fort Bragg units, and I'm on an (ending) lunchbreak.
- jwtadvice 10y agoThe 63th Regional Support Command (linked above) hosts the 12th and 14th Psychological Operations Battalions out of the 7th Psychological Operations Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Psychological_Operations_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Psychological_Operations_G...