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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Military Studied Occupy on Twitter to Learn How to Spread Propaganda on Social Media
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While some elements of the multi-million dollar project might raise a wry smile research has included analysis of the tweets of celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, in an attempt to understand influence on Twitter others have resulted in the buildup of massive datasets of tweets and additional types social media posts.
Several of the DoD-funded studies went further than merely monitoring what users were communicating on their own, instead messaging unwitting participants in order to track and study how they responded.
Shortly before the Facebook controversy erupted, Darpa published a lengthy list of the projects funded under its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program, including links to actual papers and abstracts.
The project list includes a study of how activists with the Occupy movement used Twitter as well as a range of research on tracking internet memes and some about understanding how influence behaviour (liking, following, retweeting) happens on a range of popular social media platforms like Pinterest, Twitter, Kickstarter, Digg and Reddit.
Darpa, established in 1958, is responsible for technological research for the US military. Its notable successes have included no less than Arpanet, the precursor to today's internet, and numerous other innovations, including onion routing, which powers anonymising technologies like Tor. However, thanks to some of its more esoteric projects, which have included thought-controlled robot arms, city-wide surveillance programs and exo-skeletons, the agency has also become the subject of many conspiracy theories, and a staple in programmes like the X-Files.
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US Military Studied Occupy on Twitter to Learn How to Spread Propaganda on Social Media (Original Post)
eridani
Jul 2014
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whistler162
(11,155 posts)1. OH NOES... what next....
the Pentagon writes invasion plans for Canada? OH NOES!!!!! <SARCASM>
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. du rec.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)3. Not surprised
They've had lots of practice already.