Pentagon and others manipulate social media to shape opinion on Security State.

[Electric Monk]

(cross-posting from GD, originally posted by Aerows)

If you ever get the feeling that you are getting a hard sell on the security state, military adventures, the alphabet soup agencies, and everyone in the supply chain that profits off of war, spying, and all of the above, you are.

This has been repeatedly detailed.

Heck, Google Palantir. That will get you started. If you'd rather a sampling, however, here are some.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/07/pentagon-seeks-to-manipulate-social-media-for-propaganda-purposes.html

Cass Sunstein's Nefarious Plans

In case you didn't like the first one

Then there are these types of tactics:

How to disrupt a forum discussion

How about Karl Rove's Guide to Effective Blogging

And on, and on and on.

To preclude the absolute FIRST argument I'm going to get in this thread, I'll refer to the rules of web disruption,

5. Pretend that alternative media – such as blogs written by experts in their fields, without any middleman – are untrustworthy or are motivated solely by money (for example, use the derogatory term “blogspam” for any blog posting, pretending that there is no original or insightful reporting, but that the person is simply doing it for ad revenue).

I didn't link to the intercept, either, but they certainly have a lot of detailed information on this, too - but I figured I'd cut that off at the pass, as it were.

Do you recognize anyone using these tactics? It's similar to Sibelian's how to tell if someone is wasting my time. They are, and doing a lot more.