US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research
• Defense Department spent millions to research social networks
• Studies focused on Occupy and Middle East protests
• Projects also analysed memes, celebrities and disinformation
The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook’s controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds.
Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of Defense’s military research department, known as Darpa, has involved users of some of the internet’s largest destinations, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter, for studies of social connections and how messages spread.
While some elements of the multi-million dollar project might raise a wry smile – research has included analysis of the tweets of celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, in an attempt to understand influence on Twitter – others have resulted in the buildup of massive datasets of tweets and additional types social media posts.
Several of the DoD-funded studies went further than merely monitoring what users were communicating on their own, instead messaging unwitting participants in order to track and study how they responded.
Shortly before the Facebook controversy erupted, Darpa published a lengthy list of the projects funded under its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program, including links to actual papers and abstracts.
The project list includes a study of how activists with the Occupy movement used Twitter as well as a range of research on tracking internet memes and some about understanding how influence behaviour (liking, following, retweeting) happens on a range of popular social media platforms like Pinterest, Twitter, Kickstarter, Digg and Reddit.
Darpa, established in 1958, is responsible for technological research for the US military. Its notable successes have included no less than Arpanet, the precursor to today's internet, and numerous other innovations, including onion routing, which powers anonymising technologies like Tor. However, thanks to some of its more esoteric projects, which have included thought-controlled robot arms, city-wide surveillance programs and exo-skeletons, the agency has also become the subject of many conspiracy theories, and a staple in programmes like the X-Files.
Unveiled in 2011, the SMISC program was regarded as a bid by the US military to become better at both detecting and conducting propaganda campaigns on social media.
On the webpage where it has published links to the papers, Darpa states the general goal of the SMISC program is “to develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base".
More Here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-...
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INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF DARPA AND THE RMA
DARPA’s primary mission is to foster advanced technologies and systems that create “revolutionary” advantages for the US military. Consistent with this mission, DARPA is independent from the military Services and pursues generally higher-risk, higher-payoff research and development (R&D) projects. DARPA program managers are encouraged to challenge existing approaches to warfighting and to seek results rather than just explore ideas. Hence, in addition to supporting technology and component development, DARPA on occasion funds the integration of large-scale “systems of systems” in order to demonstrate “disruptive capabilities.” Disruptive capabilities are more than just new technologies; they are transformations in operations and strategy enabled by synergistic combinations of technologies.--
Social engineering does not fall under DARPA, but to RAND Corporation. The point here is "DARPA" is camuflage for Rothschild style Nazi research. "Defence budget" is some way to hide what they (Zionists) are doing
"US military" - no, it is not U.S. targeting U.S. It is the enemy targeting U.S. citizens
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tags: DARPA, US, media, military, networks, social, surveillance, twitter
more: RAND, Zionism, social-engineering
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The government spends a great deal of manpower and money to monitor which stories, memes and social movements are developing the momentum to actually pose a threat to the status quo. For example, the Federal Reserve, Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies all monitor social media for stories critical of their agencies … or the government in general. Other governments – and private corporations – do the same thing.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/us-military-admits-spending-millions...
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New Glenn Greenwald Revelation Makes Clear NSA IS SPYING ON U.S. POLITICIANS! (But Why?)
See more at: http://xrepublic.tv/node/9820#sthash.2TSUfFf1.dpuf
Why -> NSA = Zionists, (Gen.) Alexander is a knights templar family name
Edward Snowden is exposing Zionism, though he does not make it explicit. Look at left liberal Jewish sites like http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/ and you will see they hate Snowden
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I checked what happens on boilingfrogpost.com
Sibel Edmonds
This is why I no longer expect or demand additional whistleblowers and more revelations. We do not need more revelations. We do need less apathy. We do not need additional whistleblowers.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/05/28/weve-had-more-than-enoug...
Ok. Sibel is heading an whistleblower organisation, but there are no not already known whistleblowers there, and she does not want more whistleblowers neither, and Greenwald is scam.
James Corbett and Sibel Edmonds = no difference
Last comment on above link
So what does this mean? You have to go to court and issue a subpoena against Greenwald for him to release ones email on the list? -
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/05/28/weve-had-more-than-enoug...
"issue a subpoena" ... not against NSA, but Greenwald (?)
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