Swaying public opinion
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An insidious practice
The US military has been given software which can create fake online social media personas.
These accounts are used to “create false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and other commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objective”.
They may not be controlling the internet directly, but such covert manipulation of online conversations is just as destructive, and worlds more deceitful.
