industryterm:online covert operations

Snowden documents show US, UK spy agencies infiltrate online groups - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/27/gchq-f27.html

Snowden documents show US, UK spy agencies infiltrate online groups

By Nick Barrickman
27 February 2014

British and US intelligence agencies are systematically employing deceptive tactics to monitor, manipulate and subvert the activities of individuals in various online activist organizations who have never been charged with crimes, according to a report on Glenn Greenwald’s website, the Intercept.

The report is based on a 50-page presentation by the British spy agency GCHQ to the NSA and other agencies, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations.” The document expands on details of methods used by GCHQ and its previously secret unit, the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), reported in previous leaks from Snowden.

#snowden #prism #espionnage #nsa

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
►https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation

Among the core self-identified purposes of #JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the #reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.

#manipulation #malhonnêteté_extrême