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Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren’t what they seem to be. The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf operations: fake grassroots campaigns, which create the impression that large numbers of people are demanding or opposing particular policies. This deception is most likely to occur where the interests of companies or governments come into conflict with the interests of the public. For example, there’s a long history of tobacco companies creating astroturf groups to fight attempts to regulate them.
After I last wrote about online astroturfing, in December, I was contacted by a whistleblower. He was part of a commercial team employed to infest internet forums and comment threads on behalf of corporate clients, promoting their causes and arguing with anyone who opposed them. Like the other members of the team, he posed as a disinterested member of the public. Or, to be more accurate, as a crowd of disinterested members of the public: he used 70 personas, both to avoid detection and to create the impression that there was widespread support for his pro-corporate arguments. I’ll reveal more about what he told me when I’ve finished the investigation I’m working on.
But it now seems that these operations are more widespread, more sophisticated and more automated than most of us had guessed. Emails obtained by political hackers from a US cyber-security firm called HB Gary Federal suggest that a remarkable technological armoury is being deployed to drown out the voices of real people.
As the Daily Kos has reported, the emails show that:
- companies now use “persona management software”, which multiplies the efforts of the astroturfers working for them, creating the impression that there’s major support for what a corporation or government is trying to do.
- this software creates all the online furniture a real person would possess: a name, email accounts, web pages and social media. In other words, it automatically generates what look like authentic profiles, making it hard to tell the difference between a virtual robot and a real commentator.
- fake accounts can be kept updated by automatically re-posting or linking to content generated elsewhere, reinforcing the impression that the account holders are real and active.
- human astroturfers can then be assigned these “pre-aged” accounts to create a back story, suggesting that they’ve been busy linking and re-tweeting for months. No one would suspect that they came onto the scene for the first time a moment ago, for the sole purpose of attacking an article on climate science or arguing against new controls on salt in junk food.
- with some clever use of social media, astroturfers can, in the security firm’s words, “make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/herself to key individuals as part of the exercise … There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas”
The article continues at the link: http://www.alternet.org/story/150049/corporate-funded_online_%27astroturfing%27_is_more_advanced_and_more_automated_than_you_might_think?akid=6571.101566.m0-hpq&rd=1&t=12February 24, 2011 |
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Reddit has reached a new milestone: 1 billion monthly pageviews. That’s up 300% from a year ago and a 20% increase from just last month.
As it occasionally does, the Condé Nast-owned company disclosed its January 2011 traffic stats. Its biggest accomplishment was breaking the billion pageview milestone. Specifically, the social media service garnered 1,000,404,480 pageviews. As Reddit notes in its blog post, only about 100 other websites can stake a claim in the billion pageviews club.Reddit has reached a new milestone: 1 billion monthly pageviews. That’s up 300%... more
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Neg Norton is president of the Yellow Pages Association, a group that's taken some hits on TreeHugger for pushing paper phone books. Today, his association is rolling out a new, national opt-out Internet site, where people will be able to end delivery of paper phone books to their doorsteps. If you don't want them, they won't be delivered ... for at least a few years. Norton sat down with Treehugger to talk about the launch of yellowpagesoptout.com, an improvement on an older model, which required people to contact individual publishers for opting out of paper directories.
TH: Tell me, why did the Yellow Pages industry decide to launch this upgraded opt-out site?
NEG NORTON: We're trying to do the right thing here, by our customers, and environmentalists and everybody. We think this site is a really positive step toward that ...
There are 158 domestic publishers, and all of them are on the site.
TH: But why did you decide to create a clearinghouse for opting out of phone books?
NN: It doesn't make any sense for us to deliver phone books to people who don't want them. We don't want to irritate consumers, and it creates no value for our customers, either.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/02/yellow-pages-industry-unveils-national-opt-out-site-neg-norton-interview.php?campaign=TH_rotator
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The newest installment of TFR has been posted and is available at http://c2kfantasy.yolasite.com. You can also find previous chapters in the archives in case you need to catch up on the adventures of Zanzhu and her friends.The newest installment of TFR has been posted and is available at... more
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I will be posting the next installment of The Final Resistance tomorrow instead of Friday for those of you who will be busy on New Year's Eve. Be sure to stop by http://c2kfantasy.yolasite.com to catch up on your favorite fantasy heroine.I will be posting the next installment of The Final Resistance tomorrow instead of... more
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African-American and Latino adults in the US who use the internet are twice as likely as whites to use the website Twitter, a survey has found.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11965723African-American and Latino adults in the US who use the internet are twice as likely... more
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In a case of closing the barn door after the horses are out, federal employees are being warned not to look at documents leaked by WikiLeaks website, noting that despite their wide release, the hundreds of thousands of stolen papers are still classified by the U.S. government.
:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/05/administration-fed-workers-dont-read-wikileaks/In a case of closing the barn door after the horses are out, federal employees are... more
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The latest installment of The Final Resistance is now available at http://c2kfantasy.yolasite.com. Catch up on this series after you have recovered from all your Black Friday shopping.The latest installment of The Final Resistance is now available at... more
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Spaced-out adolescents in headphones litter YouTube, some panting and others wincing as they listen to droning, pulsating soundtracks known as iDoses. hey have fallen victim to an insidious new digital drug culture that preys on vulnerable young teens with money to burn. ith nothing but an mp3 player and an internet account they can can legally download 'binaural' audio downloads that claim to deliver a “high” that can mimic drugs like LSD and Crystal Meth. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/11915--i-dosing-or-digital-drugSpaced-out adolescents in headphones litter YouTube, some panting and others wincing... more
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The navy's website was shut down this morning after a self-confessed security enthusiast claimed to have hacked into the site and its databases.
:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8117144/Royal-Navy-website-infiltrated-by-computer-hacker.htmlThe navy's website was shut down this morning after a self-confessed security... more
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http://devolutionofrevolution.webs.com Come check out the website of Devolution Of Revolution Podcast Radio. The Website will give you information on what why we do the podcast, topics on our podcast, and also forums for people to interact with the host and other listeners. We talk about politics, social issues, world news, ufo's, paranormal, amongst other issues going on today. So stop by, check out what is new in the news tab or listen to the podcast at our website.http://devolutionofrevolution.webs.com Come check out the website of Devolution Of... more
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