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Document from GCHQ Details Disinfo Tactics

posted by Cactus on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:00AM   
from the I-have-nothing-to-hide-...-right? dept.

Blackmoore writes:

Glen Greenwald at The Intercept has published another expose on how western intelligence agencies are attempting to control and manipulate online discourse.

The newest article from Greenwald is based around a document from JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group), a previously secret unit of Britan's GCHQ. Entitled "The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations", the document outlines tactics used to achieve JTRIG's purposes of (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.

From the article: "The broader point is... these surveillance agencies have vested themselves with the power to deliberately ruin people's reputations and disrupt their online political activity even though they've been charged with no crimes, and even though their actions have no conceivable connection to terrorism or even national security threats."

• Re:They have been doing this for years ! COINTELPR Re:They have been doing this for years ! COINTELPR (Score: 5, Funny) by dotdotdot on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:25AM

  by dotdotdot (858) on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:25AM (#7740)

  Wow! I think you win for longest post ever. Next time, try just posting links to that information instead.

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• Re:They have been doing this for years ! COINTELPR (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:49AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:49AM (#7752)

  They're attempting to bury any useful discussion by suggesting "we already knew all this! nothing to see here!" Your tax dollars at work.

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• Re:They have been doing this for years ! COINTELPR (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:16AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:16AM (#7770)

  APK has probably made longer posts.

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• OOPs They have been doing this for years. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:13AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:13AM (#7797)

  Apologies for that, forums normally automatically display the first twenty or so lines, then provide a "read more" link. I am sure that SN have probably already modified the relevant code.

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