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If you aren't worried about the customer case you need be aware of nation state interest in partnering with search engines and content curators - not just to ce
by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
If you aren't worried about the customer case you need be aware of nation state interest in partnering with search engines and content curators - not just to censor - but to deceive and manipulate. The leaked US Special Forces document on Wikileaks does not mentioned Google but does talk about putting adversaries in an information bubble that will make it look like they've lost public support for their cause. They expand this bubble around not only the adversary, but their family and close friends.
The way the US military works in large and increasing part is that it works with US corporations to achieve these effects. Given the complaints by other countries of weaponization of Google/Facebook and studies done on using search engine results to manipulate voting we should keep our eyes peeled that Google continues to 'not be evil'.
- secfirstmd 11y agoInteresting...Which one exactly? Source?
- themeekforgotpw 11y agoIf you are asking about vote manipulation: https://www.google.com/search?q=search+engine+manipulate+votes https://www.google.com/search?q=search+engine+manipulate+vot... https://www.google.com/search?q=Search+Engine+Manipulation+Effect https://www.google.com/search?q=Search+Engine+Manipulation+E... https://www.google.com/search?q=Lok+Sabha+election+research https://www.google.com/search?q=Lok+Sabha+election+research http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4004139/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4004139/
- secfirstmd 11y agoThanks. And the document about US SF units doing this?
- themeekforgotpw 11y agohttps://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_counterinsurgency_manual_analysis https://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_counterinsurgen...
- secfirstmd 11y agoThanks!
- themeekforgotpw 11y agoSince you seem to be interested, I'm sure you're aware of the vote manipulation studies at Facebook and funding link to the Air Force and DoD (MINERVA)? https://www.google.com/search?q=61+million+experiment+social+influence https://www.google.com/search?q=61+million+experiment+social... There are also - and I can go on about this for quite some time - programs and studies partially revealed by the Snowden docs but evidenced well beyond those documents that have the US investing resources into not only tracking the flow of ideas using large scale sentiment and social media analysis, but also curating and directing these ideas. While there is around 10 years of capability research regarding the online case, today DARPA has a research program called SMISC (Social Media in Strategic Communication; Strategic Communication is the DoD term for influence operations/propaganda) that studies how to measure the 'idea posture' of an online community and also how to control it. This combined with efforts like Operation EARNEST VOICE and the host of others does make an onlooker take the State Departments 'War of Ideas' concept much more seriously.