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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: 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.