Think if you were the agency or the leader of an intelligence group. Would you do this? Would others? The answer is yes obviously, even if bots retweet or broa

Think if you were the agency or the leader of an intelligence group. Would you do this? Would others? The answer is yes obviously, even if bots retweet or broadcast even the better. Tilting public opinion goes back to the beginning of the last century and the beginning of 'public relations' i.e. Edward Bernays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book). Companies, brands and others do this as well influencing thought, it is a huge problem on Facebook as well with likes, ads, accounts. It is a faction of marketing (public relations) and has elements of tabloid.