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Lanier mentions Russia and China. I think it's fair to also mention both the NSA (USA) and GCHQ (UK) has departments fully dedicated to online psyops. In fact
by mindcrash 4y ago
Lanier mentions Russia and China.
I think it's fair to also mention both the NSA (USA) and GCHQ (UK) has departments fully dedicated to online psyops.
In fact, GCHQs top secret - at the time - psyops department called JTRIG has been fully exposed by Glenn Greenwald at his time at The Intercept using documents exfiltrated by Edward Snowden:
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
Since then it is an open secret JTRIG works domestically (in the West) and has for example succesfully infiltrated the Anonymous collective:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/snowden-anonymous-jtrig-gchq-ddos/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/snowden-anonymous-jtrig-gchq-...
- kornhole 4y agoPerhaps this is a case of self censorship to ensure the article is published in the Guardian and other outlets. China and Russia's efforts to sway communications in the west is negligible to that of the US.