{"id":38346,"date":"2011-03-29T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/revealed-us-spy-operation-that-manipulates-social\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:00:07","slug":"revealed-us-spy-operation-that-manipulates-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/revealed-us-spy-operation-that-manipulates-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/mar\/17\/us-spy-operation-social-networks'>Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kateoplis.tumblr.com\/post\/3921439148\">kateoplis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.danielholter.com\/post\/3920539653\">danielholter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsflick.net\/post\/3920176884\">newsflick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on US military\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/us-military\">US military<\/a>\u00a0is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media using fake online personas designed to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with the US Central Command (Centcom) to develop what is described as an \u201conline persona management service\u201d that will allow one serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities at once.<\/p>\n<p>The contract stipulates each persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 controllers must be able to operate false identities from their workstations \u201cwithout fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been likened by web experts to China\u2019s attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/mar\/17\/us-spy-operation-social-networks\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>KInda surprised it took this long.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Falling behind China in almost every single category.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media kateoplis: danielholter: newsflick: The\u00a0US military\u00a0is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media using fake online personas designed to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with the US Central Command (Centcom) to develop what is described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-link"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}