Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Western spy agencies build ‘cyber magicians’ to manipulate online discourse

http://endthelie.com/2014/02/24/western-spy-agencies-build-cyber-magicians-to-manipulate-online-discourse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EndTheLie+%28End+the+Lie%29

Secret units within the ‘Five Eyes” global spying network engage in covert online operations that aim to invade, deceive, and control online communities and individuals through the spread of false information and use of ingenious social-science tactics.
Such teams of highly trained professionals have several main objectives, such as “to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet” and “to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable,” The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald reported based on intelligence documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Read more at http://endthelie.com/2014/02/24/western-spy-agencies-build-cyber-magicians-to-manipulate-online-discourse/#y2RMoyGqiiFj2PhA.99

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