How about corporate ones? Are we gonna do "sentiment analysis" on employee posts to see if the bosses are leaning on them to tweet about how great the new product is? Why not?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf [PDF Warning]
I’ve seen a few articles around the FBI’s connections to the Jan 6 protest and the Proud Boys (for example).
But yes, I agree they should call it out whoever is driving it.
But, I’d also assume any smart intelligence agency will make it look like some 3rd country is doing it. I presume Twitter can flag IPs but that’s about it?
Edit: Indeed. Russian accounts linked to the IRA for an information operation in the Central African Republic.
Snowden exposed/mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig... Plus you have Assange.
I can tell you the spooks have been operating online and monitoring people online since the internet started to get popular in the 80's & 90's, just like they have been using other technology like phone calls, postal services, financial transactions, medical records, school records, etc etc in the offline world and they will target you as a kid to manipulate you in a pre-emptive military fashion, but you and your parents will not always know this.
LINX was used to disrupt communication in the 90's, but you dont always know at the time what is going on, but the spooks have some patterns of their own which most wont pick up on and thats their give away, but its taken me decades to get close to spotting their tricks and you cant always say definitely that action was spook related at the time something goes on, so there is some truth in the saying Time always tells. Although if you look at what secrets get declassified and what doesnt, there is still alot that is not declassified because its still relevant today. The ol' honeypot is probably thousands of years old and still relevant today as a technique.
Spying & manipulation has been going on for hundreds if not thousands of years, its not a new phenomena, but it does evolve to keep up with or even lead technology. After all do you think a DoD invention, aka the internet would not be used for spying and manipulation? LOL
I'm not sure what you're talking about? Link?
https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-prot...
The FBI is well known for “encouraging” radical Muslims to commit terrorism in the US so not surprisingly they’d do the same with right wing groups.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-before-jan-6-fbi-...
whatabout
You should at least cite some sources that detail US military and state department troll farms or you're just pointing a finger at ghosts.
If you want evidence the US military is running info ops, here it is straight from the horse's mouth : http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf
Beyond that Snowden gave up a few more details, see https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/16/britains-twi...
JTRIG operated in alliance with the US at least two time that we know of for Iran and Afghanistan.
Also, the research isn't on how to detect troll farms. It's on how to optimize running your own.
It's pretty damn obvious. If you saw from China that their leading social media manipulation research center had unusually high traffic to Facebook, would you conclude that it's a leap of faith? Of course not.
Twitter provided data to back up their claims. Do you have any accounts/posts to share that back up your?