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Air Force Wants Hundreds of Fake Online Identities

Posted by timothy on from the for-great-justice-or-a-bad-simulation dept.

bizwriter writes "Bad enough that spammers are creating fake Facebook accounts that acquire connections with unsuspecting people, then inundate them with crap. Now, the US military wants software and services to manage upwards of 500 fake online personas designed to interact with social media, presumably including such sites as Facebook and Twitter."

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  1. Re:What is the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's worse than spam. It's coordinated government propaganda on a large scale...

  2. Re:Not fake IDs, corporate IDs by Moridin42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Clearly, you didn't read the article. Which I know is an absurd thing to do on /.

    However.. this is not about making an account for @Area51 or a Facebook page, so you can Like the Marine Corps.

    The USAF wants a software package that will allow a user to create and manage 10 separate accounts that are geograhically and culturally correct for the area the account is supposed to be from. And they want the package to be able to handle at least 50 such users.

    They want the ultimate in internet troll technology.

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    I don't expect morality, equality, consistency, or justice from the law. I expect only legality.