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Friday, July 18, 2014
Leaked documents reveal online manipulation, Facebook, YouTube snooping
GCHQ has developed a toolkit of software programs used to manipulate
online traffic, infiltrate users' computers and spread select messages
across social media sites including Facebook and YouTube. The UK spy agency's dark arts were revealed in documents first published by The Intercept,
and each piece of software is described in a wiki document written up
by GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). The
document, which reads like a software inventory, calls the tools part of
the agency's "weaponised capability." Some of the most interesting capabilities of the tools on the list
include the ability to seed the web with false information — such as
tweaking the results of online polls — inflating pageview counts,
censoring video content deemed "extremist" and the use of psychological
manipulation on targets — something similar to a research project conducted with Facebook's approval, which resulted in heavy criticism and outrage levied at the social media site. A number of interesting tools and their short descriptions are below...more
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