
“The New York Times report goes on to detail information uncovered from hacked data regarding the military operation to stage ‘grassroots’ responses and organizations in order to deceive via psyop. Professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow writes for the Times: ‘The hack also revealed evidence that Team Themis was developing a ‘persona management’ system — a program, developed at the specific request of the United States Air Force, that allowed one user to control multiple online identities (‘sock puppets’_ for commenting in social media spaces, thus giving the appearance of grass roots support.'”
http://www.storyleak.com/us-military-caught-social-media-running-mass-propaganda-accounts/
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