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I wonder if the Army is currently conducting any PSYOPS on domestic targets, particularly via social media. Influence bots seem quite rampant, I'd be surprised
by cwkoss 7y ago
I wonder if the Army is currently conducting any PSYOPS on domestic targets, particularly via social media.
Influence bots seem quite rampant, I'd be surprised if they weren't working on this - but would be quite the scandal if their operations also targeted Americans, even incidentally.
- verizonuser 7y agoWould it be less of a scandal if FB and Google participated in psychological operations on users, without any help from the US military nor IC?
- hos234 7y agoAll I know is Google shows me Meghan Markle news every single day. I don't click the articles, but one day they will break me.
- mieseratte 7y agoThere's what you see, and there's what you don't see. Enjoy the bread and circus, citizen.
- maximente 7y agojust a typical clutching of pearls "scandal" that follows every completely plausible but as of yet unknown .gov action
- alrs 7y agoIt was legalized in 2013, so the answer is "yes." https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
- ryanmarsh 7y agoI wonder if this has been used since then?
- pp19dd 7y agoTo be fair, social advertising accidents do happen all the time, everywhere. But USAGM (VOA/RFERL/etc) broadcasting to America is still barred today as it was then. That cited law was a modernization to Smith-Mundt recognizing that internet works very differently than the old method of pointing a shortwave antenna toward somewhere and bouncing the signal off the atmosphere. There was a relaxation clause for affiliates that often gets misinterpreted and intent of that relaxation was to permit any private news agencies to request and use VOA material. For example, a Minnesota radio station can use VOA Somali material, but that part is up to the free market.
- Eire_Banshee 7y agoLegally cannot on US citizens. We werent even allowed to use drones to help civilian search and rescue missions due to fears of being accused of spying on citizens. This was in 2015.
- xnyan 7y agoThat’s a little misleading, if the American government wants to do some surveillance on its citizens using military resources he can do so via partnership with the CIA and the NSA or any other domestic agency that has the authority to do it. The CIA and the NSA or whatever civilian agency will make the actual program and then “use” (let) military resources do their thing.
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- swayvil 7y agoYes. Of course. It's a new battlefield.