Who Are These Idiots?

Fake personas online are a bona fide warfare strategy - - they appear not only in the realms of spycraft & law enforcement but corporations and NGOs use them as well. Manufacturing Consensus is big business. The results, though, are wrecking society as people become more and more polarized, horrified by the attitudes and actions of Fake Idiots who they mistake for real people.

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References:

GCHQ taps cables, guardian 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa

Forgein Policy Mag, NDAA Propaganda, 2013: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

Intercept, 2014: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Boing Boing, 2011, HBGary: https://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html

DailyKos: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

Conspiracy Theories, Sunstein: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585 (you can download the full PDF at the bottom of that page)

Storyful Spies: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/17/revealed-how-storyful-uses-tool-monitor-what-journalists-watch

Attkisson, 2018, the Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/405807-a-news-consumers-guide-to-astroturf-sources

You Know the Obama White House Spied on Me, Too: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/09/21/sharyl-attkisson-you-know-the-obama-white-house-spied-on-me-too-n2384394

Michael Hastings: Occupy: http://www.occupy.com/article/exclusive-who-killed-michael-hastings#sthash.yjdlyp1s.dpbs

Wikileaks Brenn*n: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html

Need to Protect Internet from Astr0turfing: https://www.theguardian.co..