The Guardian: South Korea spy agency admits trying to rig 2012 presidential election
National Intelligence Service says it mobilised cyberwarfare experts to ensure Park Geun-hye beat rival and now president Moon Jae-in.
South Korea’s spy agency has admitted it conducted an illicit campaign to influence the country’s 2012 presidential election, mobilising teams of experts in psychological warfare to ensure that the conservative candidate, Park Geun-hye, beat her liberal rival.
An internal investigation by the powerful National Intelligence Service also revealed attempts by its former director and other senior officials to influence voters during parliamentary elections under Park’s predecessor, the hardline rightwinger Lee Myung-bak.
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WNU Editor: Ignoring the illegality of it all, but could a small army of commentators on the web influence an election? I know in Russia there has been numerous reports that the Kremlin is doing the same thing .... and when I read the Russian sites that I like I do spot these favourable or unfavourable comments that seem out of place or robotic .... it is almost as if someone is copy-pasting their remarks repeatedly. Bottom line .... this does not sway my opinions .... if anything .... it reinforces it. But this South Korean case is definitely one that is going to be interesting to follow .... because it will give a heads-up on the important role that the web has in influencing elections, by promoting fake news and/or by focusing attention on a news article that is true but is damaging to an opponent.
More News On South Korea’s Spy Agency Admitting That It Tried To Influence The 2012 Election
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State spy agency's election smear campaign confirmed -- Yonhap News Agency
South Korea's spy agency admits trying to influence 2012 poll -- BBC
South Korea's spy agency tried to rig 2012 presidential elections -- DW
South Korea’s spy agency admits trying to influence 2012 election -- SCMP
Spy Agency Used 'Psychological Warfare' to Help Disgraced South Korea President -- Sputnik
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"Ignoring the illegality of it all, but could a small army of commentators on the web influence an election?"
WNU, see the Great Meme War for the answer to that
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/The_Great_Meme_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_in_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2016
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/07/06/4chanpol-declares-the-great-meme-war-of-2017/
This is good!
In America, we now know the Russians got involved in our elections (attn: deniers: nsa, cia, fbi all state this), an outside nation. In South Korea, their own spy group got involved....Support your own and avoid foreign inteference.
"but could a small army of commentators on the web influence an election?"
Targetted infometrics.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
lol, not influenced by muh russia. influenced by pissed off americans
Вы русский тролль или веб-бот?
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-putin-bots-linkedin-facebook-trump-clinton-kremlin-critics-poison-war-645696
LOL
The last thing I expect was Russian in this comment thread.
I missed this Newsweek article. I will be using it later. Thankyou.
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