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Topic started on 7-1-2009 @ 04:34 PM by xbranscombex

Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders


blog.wired.com
“In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle ‘trolls,’ ‘ragers’ — and even well-informed online writers, too. It’s all part of an Air Force push to ‘counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force,’ Captain David Faggard says,” Shachtman writes.

In the case of the Infowars and Prison Planet websites, Centcom operatives do not respond to trolls and ragers. In fact, many of them seem to be the most vociferous trolls and ragers.
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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 04:51 PM by converge




Not sure what you're suggesting with that comment regarding the speed of your internet, but the objectives of the Air Force and other Military branches, and their plans to participate and perhaps influence discussion on the web are certainly not fake. Not sure about this one in particular.

One thing strange I noticed though, was that there are two images with different information.

This one is directly shown on the blog.wired.com post, and this one is shown on a page that the article on blog.wired.com links.

They contain similar but different information. The first one claims to be a Version 2, but the latter seems to have, under contact information, real Air Force contacts, and the first one only has a telephone number and gmail address.


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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 05:30 PM by UmbraSumus
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Everybody is getting in on it.

Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers
Date of article 28 july 2006/The Times

Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.


Opinion is the new propaganda .... apparently.

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