U.S. Navy/MC1 Samuel Souvannason
Wired: NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
The phony Facebook pages looked just like the real thing. They were designed to mimic pages that service members use to connect. One appeared to be geared toward a large-scale, military exercise in Europe and was populated by a handful of accounts that appeared to be real service members.
In reality, both the pages and the accounts were created and operated by researchers at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, a research group that's affiliated with NATO. They were acting as a "red team" on behalf of the military to test just how much they could influence soldiers’ real-world actions through social media manipulation.
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Update: With just $60 and internet access, researchers found and tracked NATO troops and even tricked them into disobeying orders (Business Insider)
WNU Editor: Even though we are told numerous times to not trust social media, people end up trusting social media. In a war-zone .... this will be deadly as this NATO team uncovered.
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Agreed. And I'm almost certain we will see a massive uptick in deep-fakes this election cycle @ 2020.. It would be so easy for a US-adversary (think China) to deep-fake a very realistic video of DJT doing a pee-pee in a Russian hotel room. It would take weeks to disprove perhaps even longer, as technology has progressed quite a bit and of him (DJT), so many high def footage and pictures are available to model a nearly perfect 3D deep-image onto a video, perfect lighting etc... think of the trillions the Chinese could save this way. It must be tempting to get rid of him.. even the FBI heads wanted to do so, and talked of an "insurance policy" against this president.. I think anything is possible at this point, with so many crazies.. assassination, deep fakes, . and it doesn't even have to be video.. could be an elaborate text or audio based hoax, tax records, anything..
I am also quite sure the Democrats, again, will try to manipulate this election cycle.. Donna Brazille may have been fired of CNN after she was caught handing over town hall questions to Hillary Clinton, but that wasn't all that happened.. remember how the Democrats threw out Bernie because of his "jewish heritage"? Anything will go with this race baiting, sex card playing group of people.. they will find something, .. also , I would argue that the Empire actor (Smullet or whatever his name is), who clearly committed a hate crime against white people, blaming them for wearing a maga hat and attacking him etc, HE too is part of a misinformation campaign.. he tries to portray one group of people (an entire race) as something they are not -- likely in his case "only" to promote his image, and secure a job/raise/PR, but just think of it how tempting it will be for Democrats, who - according to Hillary Clinton's own words were willing and ready to "suspend civility until we are back in power". The left really scares me, and that they are hell bent on removing borders and ICE... something is fishy here.. all their policies are geared towards economic and societal collapse of the United States...hate mongering, race card playing, calling white people toxic and entitles (about 50% of the country!), calling people racist for wanting borders, free stuff.. it is so weird and seems to be coordinated by an outside force.. they could not be more destructive to the fabric of the US - to societal peace and democracy and the economy - if they tried and Putin were to write all their economic plans and ideas himself. That bad. And you can bet your ass that in Silicon Valley a few left-leaning knuckle heads are already working on some deep fake pussy grabbing videos to get rid of the "evil, racist, sexist, hitler like putin puppet DJT". They are that demented to subdue democracy for their own narrative they keep telling themselves, while not only the evidence points into the other direction, but it looks like the Democrat party has such deep rot in it, with black face in Virgina, with rapist in virginia ,with hillary clinton playing the sex card, with kamala harris and elizabeth warren playing the race card - AND LYING! and being caught! ffs if anyone votes Democrat in 2020, they have to get their head examined.
If we have learned anything in the last couple of years it's the power of hysteria. Get the media chasing their tails in circles, and the general public will be close behind.
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