Tag: Online Activism
Spy Agencies Infiltrating and Warping Online Activism
According to Greenwald, the documents themselves reflect the agency’s own awareness that it is “pushing the boundaries” by using “cyber offensive” techniques against people who have nothing to do with terrorism or national security threats. Indeed, he says, the programs centrally involve law enforcement agents who investigate ordinary crimes. (Photo: Reuters/Kacper Pempel)
The Man has always watched us; listened when it came to activism as soon as the internet hit they’ve been watching and waiting for the right time to strike. THE MIGHTY GOVERNMENT who has more white spies and people who look like us to listen; read what we say and how we are trying to make CHANGE.
Now white folks are being watched; listed to as well BUT the majority will be people of color especially if we type anything that looks illegal to them. It seems that SOME white folks are scared THEY are becoming the minority SOME feel they’re loosing control that they’ve had for the past 500 years. So my advise just be carful who befriend on your social Media it just MIGHT be MIGHTY GOVERNMENT!
According to newly published documents, Western spy agencies like the GCHQ and NSA have developed sophisticated online operations in which covert agents infiltrate online communities, networks and forums in order to “manipulate, deceive”—even destroy the reputations of—targeted individuals and groups even if those people have not be charged, or necessarily accused, of a crime.
“Who would possibly trust a government to exercise these powers at all, let alone do so in secret, with virtually no oversight, and outside of any cognizable legal framework?”
—Glenn Greenwald
Building on his previous reporting about so-called “dirty tricks” used by GCHQ to ensare, trap, and discredit online hacktivists and other digital networks, journalist Glenn Greenwald late Monday published a new series of internal agency slides—leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden—which show how a special unit, called JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group), has attempted “to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse” for its own ends. In so doing, writes Greenwald, these operations are disrupting “the integrity of the internet itself.”
Using sophisticated psychological templates, the slides show how the intelligence service believes it can use subversion to disrupt online networks by using various tactics, of which Greenwald descibes two as key: “(1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.”
In just one example, a slide titled “Disruption” offers a playbook for some of the tactics used to discredit a target. Those possible tactics include: infiltration, false flag, false rescue, and sting operations.
Though previous reporting has shown much….
More Info: http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/03/spy-agencies-infiltrating-and-warping-online-activism/