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I saw this on mecfsforums.com ...
http://www.mecfsforums.com/index.php/topic,21587.msg166626.html#msg166626
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http://www.dailydot.com/politics/gchq-biggest-trolls-nsa-edward-snowden-jtrig/
Read more here.
http://www.mecfsforums.com/index.php/topic,21587.msg166626.html#msg166626
Not sure what to think of it:
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http://www.dailydot.com/politics/gchq-biggest-trolls-nsa-edward-snowden-jtrig/
The Internet's worst trolls are actually British spies
By Kevin Collier (Google+) on February 25, 2014
You only think somebody is being a jerk to you online. It turns out, the most sophisticated, thorough, and highly trained Internet trolls yet uncovered actually work for the British government.
That's according to the latest revelation provided by docs leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. According to documents published at the news site First Look, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the U.K.'s counterpart to the NSA, has an extensive disinformation program to undermine anyone on the Internet.
Called the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), the program is detailed in an internal training document titled The Art of Deception: Training for a new generation of online covert operations, which First Look published in full. Drawing from numerous academic fields, including anthropology, psychology, and even biology, the manual shows that GCHQ engages in large-scale institutionalized online discrediting attacks against suspects, who aren't necessarily terrorists. It's essentially a modern, online counterpart to COINTELPRO, the FBI's notorious smear program used to harass Martin Luther King, Jr. until his death in 1968.
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