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On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an article about the US military pouring millions into researching how to become a Twitter-user-influencing, propaganda-spewing machine.
The program in question is known as Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC).
SMISC, which was announced in 2011, has been regarded as the means by which the US military can both detect and conduct propaganda campaigns via social media.
While DARPA's social media experiments well might have avoided breaking any law by using only publicly available data, some of its studies are sure to make people uncomfortable.
For example, some of the SMISC research has focused on the Occupy Wall Street protests and those in the Middle East, while other projects have analysed online memes and tweets from celebrities including Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga (described as "the most popular elite user on Twitter", according to The Guardian.
The manager of SMISC, Dr. Rand Waltzman, said in a post that understanding social media is just part of DARPA's "mission of preventing strategic surprise."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 11 2014, @04:37PM
They disallowed MY ability to post AS APK now (I am also the story submitter). Tell me also WHY this is downmodded off topic http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2813&cid=66810 [soylentnews.org] when it IS ON THE TOPIC, totally (sockpuppets is why & HOW it was done). I sent an email yesterday, zero was done. I have a screenshot of it also after that period.
It was -1 off topic, AFTER 3 DAYS of being upmodded to +2 INTERESTING no less, only after "Mojo Chan" showed up there insulting me also!
(I complained per mail as instructed & got no result on that much either... so much for your "Moderation Staff" here, which resist the ability being shown as to WHO DONWMODS YOU, or who upmods also (sockpuppets are massively useful for that, what I suggested would stall that nearly immediately, revealing patterns of abuse & making sock puppeteers have to WORK A LOT HARDER TO maintaining their sockpuppetry illusion accounts also & more of them as well).
No, it's PRETTY OBVIOUS your moderation staff abuses it themselves, or why do they avoid THIS SINGLE QUESTION to no end? See here http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2836&cid=67595 [soylentnews.org]
APK
P.S.=> Of course, I also "find it ironic" that YOU "defend them so vigorously" but then again I don't - that's the sock puppeteers defense network in action (you sockpuppet) which fools no one, but yourselv(es). Why not tell us HOW you would control sock puppets then in that link above? YOU CAN'T nor do you intend to... you're not fooling anyone, but yourselves.... apk
(Score: 2) by TK on Friday July 11 2014, @06:01PM
It's my lunch break, so I guess I may as well feed the trolls.
Because a rambling diatribe about your mother does not a good post make. At best it could be modded +1 funny, if you had only kept the first sentence.
You posted the exact same thing five times in a comment thread on a story that was published this morning, and NCommander hasn't implemented your feature request yet? That lazy bastard!
No one is responding to you for the same reason no one responds to the Navy Seals copypasta. There's no point. You can write a cohesive group of paragraphs that explains the benefits of the proposed method, and the drawbacks of the current method, submit it as a feature request, talk about it in the IRC, and generally go about this in the right way. Or, you can keep posting the same thing over and over and being ignored, right up until you get banned for spamming, even if it's only a mildly inconvenient game of whack-a-mole for you.
You also keep using "you" and "your", and describing my "vigorous defense" of the mods. You are reading way too far into this. Believe it or not, every registered user is not out to get you. Except for Ethanol Fueled, that guy is nuts.
P.S. Thank you for providing ample examples of how a discussion can be cluttered by pointless spam posts.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 11 2014, @08:08PM
See subject. Apk's post was on topic right from the opening using female family members proved his point on female illogic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 11 2014, @08:17PM
Dude, you are having a breakdown.
Get away from the computer for the rest of the day.
Come back tomorrow when you've been able to put a little mental distance between yourself and today's events.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 12 2014, @05:16PM
Don't give advice until you answer this question how you'd control sock puppets (which you condone and obviously use) http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2836&cid=67595 [soylentnews.org] and answer HOW this http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2813&cid=66810 [soylentnews.org] is still modded off topic still when it clearly isn't from the outset with examples of female illogic vs male logic colliding as a theory of why the article may be right. You're clearly Laminator X running from fair questions and trolling by anonymous coward posts now. How lame. You've single handedly destroyed yourself and your site buddy. No questions asked.