Since 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:

Since 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.