No.634
http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/censorship-shadowy-forces-controlling-online-conversations?page=0%2C0This article explains how puppet accounts can be used to manipulate social networks, news, and any online community.
Firstly, it is interesting to see that the failed shilling initiative that we tried on the first month of this board could have worked in even more ways than we initially thought.
Secondly, image what a government could do with its technological capabilities and paid professionals instead of bored teenagers at home.
No.673
I heard about this already.
It's not hard to imagine it every time I see an entire forum filled with people of the same narrow-minded ideology, who have no interest at all in self-analyzation.
Yeah, amateurs certainly don't have the same resources. Perhaps if someone were smart enough to be able to write good AI bots. Sometimes I wonder if the governments haven't already managed that. The arguments hardly require much sense to be made to begin with.
No.699
They mentioned in the article that they had uncovered some evidence that corporations/governments were already participating in this. With the potential these practices have to change views I wouldn't doubt it.
No.707
No.817
Doesnt deserve a separate thread, and is somewhat related so here's this:
HOW COVERT AGENTS INFILTRATE THE INTERNET TO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE, AND DESTROY REPUTATIONS(caps is theirs)
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/