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US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists
Zeinfeld writes "Wired reports that one time Clipper Chip supporter Dorothy Denning wrote a report on using blogs for information warfare in 2006 (a report available from cryptome). Amongst the proposals were hiring bloggers directly as propaganda agents and using military media resources to 'make' a blogger posting favorable material. Notably, and most unfortunately absent from the report, is the very real question of whether the military should be manipulating domestic media." Is meme warfare just another battleground, or is this dirty pool?
In Soviet Russia, Military makes memes about you! ummm... wait...
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
It's better than the OMG PONIES I was expecting to see today :)
So there will finally be propagando to counter the countless other bloggers who spew out nonsense about the war.
Bloggers spewing nonsense about the war should be nicely countered by the insight coming out of Blackfive and other milblogs. But PysOps is a part of the military, and so for the government to use what it recognizes as military techniques against the American people is a very different thing that having private citizens with strongly biased opinions.
We are all just people.
These folks would be most likely to make a deal.
Free Republic
LGF
Michelle Malkin
A group that would probably receive some sort of funding( and a holder of the previous two )
Pajamas Media
The only problem with these is that one of them's misfired themselves off of Fox. Another has trouble carrying the message outside of their choir. As for freerepublic, their message seems to only reach the loyal and converted.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
I just wish MoveOn would move on.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire