Dozens more military programs to control social media revealed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div id="divLead2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <strong>In the wake of last week’s revelations that Facebook allowed researchers with direct links to the US Department of Defense to conduct manipulative experiments on its users by influencing their news feeds, new reports have emerged detailing how the Pentagon is funding dozens more studies into how to influence and control social media.</strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> Reporters with The London Guardian reveal that DARPA, the Pentagon-run Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is engaged in multiple programs targeting Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Kickstarter and other popular social media sites.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> The source is DARPA’s own website, where the shadowy research arm of the military has posted a list of projects funded under its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program, with links to documents.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <img alt="New reports have emerged detailing how the Pentagon is funding dozens more studies into how to influence and control social media." src="http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/20140710/370657_pentagon-us.jpg"></div> </div>

Dozens more military programs to control social media revealed

In the wake of last week’s revelations that Facebook allowed researchers with direct links to the US Department of Defense to conduct mani...

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