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In the annals of internet conspiracy theories, none is more pervasive than the one speculating paid government plants infiltrate websites, social network sites, and comment sections with an intent to sow discord, troll, and generally manipulate, deceive and destroy reputations. Guess what: it was all true.
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namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself." Call it Stasi for "Generation Internet."
- www.abovetopsecret.com...
The full PDF document can be obtained from scribd for those who want a copy: www.scribd.com...
Other tactics aimed at individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:
brazenalderpadrescorpio
reply to post by dreamingawake
How'd you get access to those files? You can message me if you're scared to speak on it so openly.
Bassago
reply to post by dreamingawake
Nice thread. Guess we all pretty much knew this was true but it's nice to have some evidence on the matter. Now I wonder if you'll get any naysayers pop in here to deny it and call Greenwald a terrorist collaborator or something.
Thanks for the link as well, bookmarking The Intercept.
We submitted numerous questions to GCHQ including: (1) Does GCHQ in fact engage in “false flag operations” where material is posted to the Internet and falsely attributed to someone else?; (2) Does GCHQ engage in efforts to influence or manipulate political discourse online?; and (3) Does GCHQ’s mandate include targeting common criminals (such as boiler room operators), or only foreign threats?
Whatever else is true, no government should be able to engage in these tactics: what justification is there for having government agencies target people – who have been charged with no crime – for reputation-destruction, infiltrate online political communities, and develop techniques for manipulating online discourse? But to allow those actions with no public knowledge or accountability is particularly unjustifiable.
snypwsd
reply to post by dreamingawake
I see that those slides come from the Five Eyes.... interesting..
The "Five Eyes", often abbreviated as "FVEY", refer to an anglophonic alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement - a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.[1][2][3]
The origins of the FVEY can be traced back to World War II, when the Atlantic Charter was issued by the Allies to lay out their goals for a post-war world. During the course of the Cold War, the ECHELON surveillance system was initially developed by the FVEY to monitor the communications of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, although it was later used to monitor billions of private communications worldwide.[4][5]