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Pentagon orders review of psyops after takedown of fake social accounts
- CarbonCycles 4y agoThis should be interesting on how it unfolds...
- vageli 4y agoThis seems to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897784
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- vmoore 4y agoThis is a bit too late! PSYOP campaigns have plagued Twitter & Facebook from the beginning. Twitter cracked down multiple times on fake accounts, but the operators change their modus operandi each time. It's basically whack-a-mole against the troll farm operators. Requiring phone numbers might slow them down, but then they just acquire a bunch of SIMs and continue registering. The only way to stop this is verifying people's passports and their account has to be held in their legal name. Just like a bank. It might be over the top, but it's the only way to drastically reduce the amount of propaganda, spam, astroturfing, dis-info, and artificially inflated metrics of Twitter & Facebook.
- cowtools 4y agoI mean, if anyone can get ahold of fake passports...
- stackola 4y agoThis post is specifically about the US' own psyop operations - > 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 — tactics used by countries such as Russia and Iran in violation of the platforms’ rules
- pessimizer 4y agoEven when we do stuff, it's actually Russia and Iran's fault.
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