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March 18, 2011

U.S. Develops Social Media Propaganda Software 
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And the Pentagon is developing software to secretly influence social
media by developing fake online personas that can sway internet chatting
on comment boards to reflect U.S. government propaganda. The Guardian of
London reports a California-based firm has won a contract to create an
"online persona management service" that would let military personnel
control up to ten separate fake identities at once. The identities would
be used to respond to relevant online content with blogposts, tweets,
chat comments and other forms of interaction. A military spokesperson
said foreign audiences would be targeted as it would be illegal to use
the technology on U.S. citizens.



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