Imagine if there was one desk that all stories could cross so that, at 4am, a media plan could be decided upon and disseminated where all news outlets coordinated to set the goalposts of debate and hyper focused on specific issues to drive a narrative to control how you vote and how you spend money; where Internet shills were given marching orders in tandem to what was shown on television, printed in newspapers and spread throughout articles on the World Wide Web.
https://i.imgur.com/Elnci0M.png In the past, we had Operation Mockingbird, where the program was supremely confident that it could control stories around the world, even in instructions to cover up any story about a possible “Yeti” sighting, should it turn out they were real.
https://i.imgur.com/121LXqy.png If, in 1959, the government was confident in its ability to control a story about a Yeti, then what is their level of confidence in controlling stories, today?
https://i.imgur.com/jQFVYew.png https://i.imgur.com/ZKMYGJj.png In fact, we have a recent example of a situation similar to the Yeti. When Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch met on the TARMAC to spike the Hillary email investigation, the FBI was so confident it wasn’t them, that their entire focus was finding the leaker, starting with searching within the local PD. We have documentation that demonstrates the state of mind of the confidence the upper levels of the FBI have when dealing with the media.
https://i.imgur.com/IbjDOkI.png https://i.imgur.com/NH86ozU.png The marriage between mainstream media and government is a literal one and this arrangement is perfectly legal.
https://i.imgur.com/OAd4vpf.png But, this problem extends far beyond politics; the private sector, the scientific community, even advice forums are shilled heavily. People are paid to cause anxiety, recommend people break up and otherwise sow depression and nervousness. This is due to a correlating force that employs “systems psychodynamics”, focusing on “tension centered” strategies to create “organizational paradoxes” by targeting people’s basic assumptions about the world around them to create division and provide distraction.
https://i.imgur.com/6OEWYFN.png https://i.imgur.com/iG4sdD4.png https://i.imgur.com/e89Rx6B.png https://i.imgur.com/uotm9Cg.png https://i.imgur.com/74wt9tD.png In this day and age, it is even easier to manage these concepts and push a controlled narrative from a central figure than it has ever been. Allen & Co is a “boutique investment firm” that managed the merger between Disney and Fox and operates as an overseeing force for nearly all media and Internet shill armies, while having it’s fingers in sports, social media, video games, health insurance, etc.
https://i.imgur.com/zlpBh3c.png https://i.imgur.com/e5ZvFFJ.png Former director of the CIA and Paul Brennan’s former superior George Tenet, holds the reigns of Allen & Co. The cast of characters involves a lot of the usual suspects.
https://i.imgur.com/3OlrX7G.png In 1973, Allen & Company bought a stake in Columbia Pictures. When the business was sold in 1982 to Coca-Cola, it netted a significant profit. Since then, Herbert Allen, Jr. has had a place on Coca-Cola's board of directors.
Since its founding in 1982, the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference has regularly drawn high-profile attendees such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, Andy Grove, Richard Parsons, and Donald Keough.
Allen & Co. was one of ten underwriters for the Google initial public offering in 2004. In 2007, Allen was sole advisor to Activision in its $18 billion merger with Vivendi Games. In 2011, the New York Mets hired Allen & Co. to sell a minority stake of the team. That deal later fell apart. In November 2013, Allen & Co. was one of seven underwriters on the initial public offering of Twitter. Allen & Co. was the adviser of Facebook in its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014.
In 2015, Allen & Co. was the advisor to Time Warner in its $80 billion 2015 merger with Charter Communications, AOL in its acquisition by Verizon, Centene Corporation in its $6.8 billion acquisition of Health Net, and eBay in its separation from PayPal.
In 2016, Allen & Co was the lead advisor to Time Warner in its $108 billion acquisition by AT&T, LinkedIn for its merger talks with Microsoft, Walmart in its $3.3 billion purchase of Jet.com, and Verizon in its $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo!. In 2017, Allen & Co. was the advisor to Chewy.com in PetSmart’s $3.35 billion purchase of the online retailer.
Allen & Co throws the Sun Valley Conference every year where you get a glimpse of who sows up. Harvey Weinstein, though a past visitor, was not invited last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Company_Sun_Valley_Conference Previous conference guests have included Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren and Susan Buffett, Tony Blair, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Allen alumnus and former Philippine Senator Mar Roxas, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Quicken Loans Founder & Chairman Dan Gilbert, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, financier George Soros, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, eBay CEO Meg Whitman, BET founder Robert Johnson, Time Warner Chairman Richard Parsons, Nike founder and chairman Phil Knight, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, NBA player LeBron James, Professor and Entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun, Governor Chris Christie, entertainer Dan Chandler, Katharine Graham of The Washington Post, Diane Sawyer, InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller, Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman, entrepreneur Wences Casares, EXOR and FCA Chairman John Elkann, Sandro Salsano from Salsano Group, and Washington Post CEO Donald E. Graham, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and Oprah Winfrey.
https://i.imgur.com/VZ0OtFa.png George Tenet, with the reigns of Allen & Co in his hands, is able to single-handedly steer the entire Mockingbird apparatus from cable television to video games to Internet shills from a singular location determining the spectrum of allowable debate. Not only are they able to target people’s conscious psychology, they can target people’s endocrine systems with food and pornography; where people are unaware, on a conscious level, of how their moods and behavior are being manipulated.
https://i.imgur.com/mA3MzTB.png "The problem with George Tenet is that he doesn't seem to care to get his facts straight. He is not meticulous. He is willing to make up stories that suit his purposes and to suppress information that does not."
"Sadly but fittingly, 'At the Center of the Storm' is likely to remind us that sometimes what lies at the center of a storm is a deafening silence."
https://i.imgur.com/YHMJnnP.png Tenet joined President-elect Bill Clinton's national security transition team in November 1992. Clinton appointed Tenet Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council, where he served from 1993 to 1995. Tenet was appointed Deputy Director of Central Intelligence in July 1995. Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004. Citing "personal reasons," Tenet submitted his resignation to President Bush on June 3, 2004. Tenet said his resignation "was a personal decision and had only one basis—in fact, the well-being of my wonderful family—nothing more and nothing less. In February 2008, he became a managing director at investment bank Allen & Company.
https://i.imgur.com/JnGHqOS.png We have the documentation that demonstrates what these people could possibly be doing with all of these tools of manipulation at their fingertips.
The term for it is “covert political action” for which all media put before your eyes is used to serve as a veneer… a reality TV show facade of a darker modus operandum.
https://i.imgur.com/vZC4D29.png https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol36no3/html/v36i3a05p_0001.htm It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever costs. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the US is to survive, longstanding American concepts of "fair play" must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated means than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3340677/t/cia-operatives-shadowy-war-force/ Intelligence historian Jeffrey T. Richelson says the S.A. has covered a variety of missions. The group, which recently was reorganized, has had about 200 officers, divided among several groups: the Special Operations Group; the Foreign Training Group, which trains foreign police and intelligence officers; the Propaganda and Political Action Group, which handles disinformation; the Computer Operations Group, which handles information warfare; and the Proprietary Management Staff, which manages whatever companies the CIA sets up as covers for the S.A.
Scientology as a CIA Political Action Group – “It is a continuing arrangement…”:
https://mikemcclaughry.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/scientology-as-a-cia-political-action-group-it-is-a-continuing-arrangement/ …Those operations we inaugurated in the years 1955-7 are still secret, but, for present purposes, I can say all that’s worth saying about them in a few sentences – after, that is, I offer these few words of wisdom. The ‘perfect’ political action operation is, by definition, uneventful. Nothing ‘happens’ in it. It is a continuing arrangement, neither a process nor a series of actions proceeding at a starting point and ending with a conclusion.
CIA FBI NSA Personnel Active in Scientology:
https://i.imgur.com/acu2Eti.png When you consider the number of forces that can be contained within a single “political action group” in the form on a “boutique investment firm,” where all sides of political arguments are predetermined by a selected group of actors who have been planted, compromised or leveraged in some way in order to control the way they spin their message.
https://i.imgur.com/tU4MD4S.png The evidence of this coordinated effort is overwhelming and the “consensus” that you see on TV, in sports, in Hollywood, in the news and on the Internet is fabricated.
Under the guise of a fake account a posting is made which looks legitimate and is towards the truth is made - but the critical point is that it has a VERY WEAK PREMISE without substantive proof to back the posting. Once this is done then under alternative fake accounts a very strong position in your favour is slowly introduced over the life of the posting. It is IMPERATIVE that both sides are initially presented, so the uninformed reader cannot determine which side is the truth. As postings and replies are made the stronger 'evidence' or disinformation in your favour is slowly 'seeded in.'
Thus the uninformed reader will most likely develop the same position as you, and if their position is against you their opposition to your posting will be most likely dropped. However in some cases where the forum members are highly educated and can counter your disinformation with real facts and linked postings, you can then 'abort' the consensus cracking by initiating a 'forum slide.'
When you find yourself feeling like common sense and common courtesy aren’t as common as they ought to be, it is because there is a massive psychological operation controlled from the top down to ensure that as many people as possible are caught in a “tension based” mental loop that is inflicted on them by people acting with purpose to achieve goals that are not in the interest of the general population, but a method of operating in secret and corrupt manner without consequences.
Notice that Jeffrey Katzenberg, of Disney, who is intertwined with Allen & Co funds the Young Turks. He is the perfect example of the relationship between media and politics.
Katzenberg has also been involved in politics. With his active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was called "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fundraisers."
With cash from Jeffrey Katzenberg, The Young Turks looks to grow paid subscribers:
https://digiday.com/media/with-cash-from-katzenberg-the-young-turks-look-to-grow-paid-subscribers/ Last week, former DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new mobile entertainment company WndrCo was part of a $20 million funding round in TYT Network, which oversees 30 news and commentary shows covering politics, pop culture, sports and more. This includes the flagship “The Young Turks” program that streams live on YouTube every day. Other investors in the round included venture capital firms Greycroft Partners, E.ventures and 3L Capital, which led the round. This brings total funding for Young Turks to $24 million.
How Hollywood's Political Donors Are Changing Strategies for the Trump Era:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hollywood-political-donors-are-changing-strategy-post-trump-1150545 Hollywood activism long has been depicted as a club controlled by a handful of powerful white men: Katzenberg, Spielberg, Lear, David Geffen, Haim Saban and Bob Iger are the names most often mentioned. But a new generation of power brokers is ascendant, including J.J. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath, cited for their personal donations and bundling skills; Shonda Rhimes, who held a get-out-the-vote rally at USC's Galen Center on Sept. 28 that drew 10,000 people; CAA's Darnell Strom, who has hosted events for Nevada congresswoman Jacky Rosen and Arizona congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema; and former Spotify executive Troy Carter, who held three fundraisers for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous (Carter also was a fundraiser for President Obama).
Soros Group Buys Viacom's DreamWorks Film Library:
https://www.forbes.com/2006/03/17/soros-viacom-dreamworks-cx_gl_0317autofacescan11.html#541a895f1f22 Viacom, after splitting off from Les Moonves Les Moonves ' CBS , still holds Paramount Pictures, and that movie studio in December agreed to acquire DreamWorks SKG, the creative shop founded by the Hollywood triumvirate of Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg (a former exec at The Walt Disney Co.). DreamWorks Animation had been spun off into a separate company.
Now it's time for Freston to make back some money--and who better to do a little business with than George Soros? The billionaire financier leads a consortium of Soros Strategic Partners LP and Dune Entertainment II LLC, which together are buying the DreamWorks library--a collection of 59 flicks, including Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, and American Beauty.
The money you spend on media and junk food and in taxes goes to these groups who then decide how best to market at you so that they decide how you vote by creating a fake consensus to trick into thinking that you want something other than what is best for you; but will inevitably result in more money being funneled to the top, creating further separation between the super rich and the average person. The goal will be to assert creeping authoritarianism by generating outrage against policies and issues they hate. Part of manipulating your basic assumptions is also to use schadenfreude (think canned laughter on TV) against characters who support the cause that might actually do you the most good (which reaffirms and strengthens your confirmation biased along predetermined political lines).
https://i.imgur.com/PW1cRtj.png We have a population being taught to hate socialism and love capitalism when the truth is no country is practicing either. These terms are merely disguises for political oligarchies where the collection of wealth is less about getting themselves rich and more about keeping everyone else poor.
What can you guess about the world around you if it turned out that every consensus that was forced on you was fake?
How much money would it take to make it look like 51% of the Internet believed in completely idiotic ideas? Combine shill operations with automation and AI’s, and the cost becomes a good investment relative to the return when measured in political power.
Even the people who are well intentioned and very vocal do not have to consciously be aware that they are working for a political action group. A covert political group will always prefer an unwitting tool to help push their agenda, so that they can remain in the shadows.
FDA Admonishes Drug Maker Over Kim Kardashian Instagram Endorsement
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2015/08/11/fda-spanks-drug-maker-over-kim-kardashian-instagram-endorsement/#25174a29587b The OSS files offer details about other agents than famous chef, Julia Child; including Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, major league catcher Moe Berg, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and actor Sterling Hayden.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26186498/ns/us_news-security/t/julia-child-cooked-double-life-spy/ USA Today: Businesses and organizations may refer to it as a tool for competitive advantage and marketing; but make no mistake
http://archive.is/37tK3 Shareblue accounts caught in
/politics posting links to Shareblue without disclosing their affiliation
http://archive.is/7HAkr Psy Group developed elaborate information operations for commercial clients and political candidates around the world
http://archive.is/BBblQ Top mod of
/Mechanical_Gifs tries to sell subreddit on ebay for 999.00 dollars.
http://archive.is/kU1Ly Shill posts picture of a dog in a hammock with the brand clearly visible without indicating that it's an ad in the title of the post
http://archive.is/Mfdk9 Arstechnica: GCHQs menu of tools spreads disinformation across Internet- “Effects capabilities†allow analysts to twist truth subtly or spam relentlessly.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/ghcqs-chinese-menu-of-tools-spread-disinformation-across-internet/ Samsung Electronics Fined for Fake Online Comments
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/samsung-electronics-fined-for-fake-online-comments/?_r=0 Discover Magazine: Researchers Uncover Twitter Bot Army That’s 350
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/01/20/twitter-bot-army/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverTechnology%20%28Discover%20Technology%29#.WIMl-oiLTnA Times of Israel - The internet: Israel’s new PR battlefield
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/ Time: Social Media Manipulation? When “Indie†Bloggers and Businesses Get Cozy
http://business.time.com/2013/04/22/social-media-manipulation-when-indie-bloggers-and-businesses-get-cozy/ Content-Driven Detection of Campaigns in Social Media [PDF]
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/caverlee/pubs/lee11cikm.pdf the law preventing them from using this in America was repealed
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/ Redditor who works for a potato mailing company admits to being a shill. He shows off his 27 thousand dollars he made in
/pics http://i.imgur.com/CcTHwdS.png Screenshot of post since it was removed.
http://i.imgur.com/k9g0WF8.png Just thought I'd contribute to this thread
http://imgur.com/OpSos4u CNN: A PR firm has revealed that it is behind two blogs that previously appeared to be created by independent supporters of Wal-Mart. The blogs Working Families for Wal-mart and subsidiary site Paid Critics are written by 3 employees of PR firm Edelman
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/20/news/companies/walmart_blogs/index.htm Vice: Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/your-government-wants-to-militarize-social-media-to-influence-your-beliefs BBC News: China's Internet spin doctors
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7783640.stm BBC News: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm Wall Street Journal: Turkey's Government Forms 6
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323527004579079151479634742?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887323527004579079151479634742.html Fake product reviews may be pervasive
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-fake-product-pervasive.html#nRlv USA Today: The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-05-24/Leonie-usa-today-propaganda-pentagon/55190450/1 ADWEEK: Marketing on Reddit Is Scary
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/marketing-reddit-scary-these-success-stories-show-big-potential-168278 BBC- How online chatbots are already tricking you- Intelligent machines that can pass for humans have long been dreamed of
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140609-how-online-bots-are-tricking-you BBC news: Amazon targets 1
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34565631 BBC: More than four times as many tweets were made by automated accounts in favour of Donald Trump around the first US presidential debate as by those backing Hillary Clinton
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37684418 Fake five-star reviews being bought and sold online - Fake online reviews are being openly traded on the internet
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43907695 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20982985 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20982985 Bloomberg: How to Hack an Election [and influence voters with fake social media accounts]
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/ "Internet Reputation Management
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-30/do-reputation-management-services-work-businessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice Buzzfeed: Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america#.ki8Mz97ly The Rise of Social Bots
http://www.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204021-the-rise-of-social-bots/fulltext CBC News- Canadian government monitors online forums
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bureaucrats-monitor-online-forums-1.906351 Chicago Tribune: Nutrition for sale: How Kellogg worked with 'independent experts' to tout cereal
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-kellogg-independent-experts-cereal-20161121-story.html DailyKos: HBGary: Automated social media management
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All Meme Warfare Center
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tfulltext/u2/a507172.pdf Shilling on Reddit is openly admitted to in this Forbes article
http://www.forbes.com/sites/julesschroede2016/03/10/the-magic-formula-behind-going-viral-on-reddit/#1d2485b05271 Forbes: From Tinder Bots To 'Cuban Twitter'
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/17/from-tinder-bots-to-covert-social-networks-welcome-to-cognitive-hacking/#4b78e2d92a7d Hivemind
http://www.hivemind.cc/rank/shills Huffington Post- Exposing Cyber Shills and Social Media's Underworld
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-fiorella/cyber-shills_b_2803801.html The Independent: Massive British PR firm caught on video: "We've got all sorts of dark arts...The ambition is to drown that negative content and make sure that you have positive content online." They discuss techniques for managing reputations online and creating/maintaining 3rd-party blogs that seem independent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-top-lobbyists-boasting-how-they-influence-the-pm-6272760.html New York Times: Lifestyle Lift
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/technology/internet/15lift.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 New York Times: Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/give-yourself-4-stars-online-it-might-cost-you.html?src=me&ref=general NY Times- From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=1 NY Times: Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html?_r=1 PBS Frontline Documentary - Generation Like
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/ Gamers promote gaming-gambling site on youtube by pretending to hit jackpot without disclosing that they own the site. They tried to retroactively write a disclosure covering their tracks
http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-lotto-investigation-uncovers-colossal-conflict-of-interest/ Raw Story: CENTCOM engages bloggers
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Raw_obtains_CENTCOM_email_to_bloggers_1016.html Raw Story: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/revealed-air-force-ordered-software-to-manage-army-of-fake-virtual-people/ Redective
http://www.redective.com/?r=e&a=search&s=subreddit&t=redective&q=shills Salon: Why Reddit moderators are censoring Glenn Greenwald’s latest news story on shills
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partne The Atlantic: Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/fda-drug-promotion-social-media/404563/ WAR.COM: THE INTERNET AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
http://www.theblackvault.com/documents/ADA389269.pdf The Guardian: Internet Astroturfing
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/dec/13/astroturf-libertarians-internet-democracy The Guardian: Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/nov/20/mondaymediasection.israel Operation Earnest Voice
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/ma17/us-spy-operation-social-networks The Guardian: British army creates team of Facebook warriors
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/31/british-army-facebook-warriors-77th-brigade The Guardian: US military studied how to influence Twitter [and Reddit] users in Darpa-funded research [2014]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies The Guardian: Chinese officials flood the Chinese internet with positive social media posts to distract their population
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/chinese-officials-create-488m-social-media-posts-a-year-study-finds Times of Israel: Israeli government paying bilingual students to spread propaganda online primarily to international communities without having to identify themselves as working for the government. "The [student] union will operate computer rooms for the project...it was decided to establish a permanent structure of activity on the Internet through the students at academic institutions in the country."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pmo-stealthily-recruiting-students-for-online-advocacy/ USA Today: Lord & Taylor settles FTC charges over paid Instagram posts
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/03/15/lord--taylor-settles-ftc-charges-over-paid-instagram-posts/81801972/ Researcher's algorithm weeds out people using multiple online accounts to spread propaganda - Based on word choice
http://www.utsa.edu/today/2016/10/astroturfing.html http://www.webinknow.com/2008/12/the-us-air-force-armed-with-social-media.html Wired: Powered by rapid advances in artificial intelligence
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/06/wired-world-2015/robot-propaganda Wired: Clinton Staff and Volunteers Busted for Astroturfing [in 2007]
http://www.wired.com/2007/12/clinton-staff-a/ Wired: Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/pro-government-twitter-bots-try-hush-mexican-activists/ Wired: Microsoft
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/ftc-machinima-microsoft-youtube/ Wired: Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/03/report-recruit/ Wired: Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/01/usaf-blog-respo/ Reddit Secrets
https://archive.fo/NAwBx Reddit Secrets
https://archive.fo/SCWN7 Boostupvotes.com
https://archive.fo/WdbYQ "Once we isolate key people
https://archive.is/PoUMo GCHQ has their own internet shilling program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intelligence_Group Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_sockpuppetry US also operates in conjunction with the UK to collect and share intelligence data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement Glenn Greenwald: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ Glenn Greenwald: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/ Here is a direct link to your image for the benefit of mobile users
https://imgur.com/OpSos4u.jpg Reddit for iPhone
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-the-official-app/id1064216828?mt=8 Why Satoshi Nakamoto Has Gone
https://medium.com/@ducktatosatoshi-nakamoto-has-gone-4cef923d7acd What I learned selling my Reddit accounts
https://medium.com/@Rob79/what-i-learned-selling-my-reddit-accounts-c5e9f6348005#.u5zt0mti3 Artificial intelligence chatbots will overwhelm human speech online; the rise of MADCOMs
https://medium.com/artificial-intelligence-policy-laws-and-ethics/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-will-overwhelm-human-speech-online-the-rise-of-madcoms-e007818f31a1 How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts - According to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2 Whistleblower and subsequent investigation: Paid trolls on
/Bitcoin https://np.reddit.com/Bitcoin/comments/34m7yn/professional_bitcoin_trolls_exist/cqwjdlw Confession of Hillary Shill from
/SandersForPresident https://np.reddit.com/conspiracy/comments/3rncq9/confession_of_hillary_shill_from/ Why do I exist?
https://np.reddit.com/DirectImageLinkerBot/wiki/index Already a direct link?
https://np.reddit.com/DirectImageLinkerBot/wiki/res_links Here's the thread.
https://np.reddit.com/HailCorporate/comments/3gl8zi/that_potato_mailing_company_is_at_it_again/ /netsec talks about gaming reddit via sockpuppets and how online discourse is (easily) manipulated.
https://np.reddit.com/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock_puppets_in_rnetsec_last_year_and_are Redditor comes clean about being paid to chat on Reddit. They work to promote a politician
https://np.reddit.com/offmychest/comments/3gk56y/i_get_paid_to_chat_on_reddit/ Shill whistleblower
https://np.reddit.com/politics/comments/rtr6b/a_very_interesting_insight_into_how_certain/ Russian bots were active on Reddit last year
https://np.reddit.com/RussiaLago/comments/76cq4d/exclusive_we_can_now_definitively_state_that/?st=j8s7535j&sh=36805d5d The Bush and Gore campaigns of 2000 used methods similar to the Chinese government for conducting “guided discussions†in chatrooms designed to influence citizens
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/3xhoq8/til_the_advent_of_social_media_offers_new_routes/?st=j0o5xr9c&sh=3662f0dc source paper.
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/4d3l3s/government_agents_and_their_allies_might_ente or Click Here.
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/4kdq7n/astroturfing_information_megathread_revision_8/?st=iwlbcoon&sh=9e44591e Alleged paid shill leaks details of organization and actions.
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/4wl19alleged_paid_shill_leaks_details_of_organization/?st=irktcssh&sh=8713f4be Shill Confessions and Additional Information
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/5pzcnx/shill_confessions_and_additional_information/?st=izz0ga8r&sh=43621acd Corporate and governmental manipulation of Wikipedia articles
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/5sb7pi/new_york_times_corporate_editing_of_wikipedia/?st=iyteny9b&sh=b488263f Ex -MMA fighter and ex-police officer exposes corrupt police practices
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/6jn27s/ex_mma_fighter_and_expolice_officer_exposes/ User pushes InfoWars links on Reddit
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/6uau99/chemicals_in_reddit_are_turning_memes_gay_take/?st=j6r0g2om&sh=96f3dbf4 Some websites use shill accounts to spam their competitor's articles
https://np.reddit.com/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1ja4nf/lets_talk_about_those_playing_reddit_with/?st=iunay35w&sh=d841095d User posts video using GoPro
https://np.reddit.com/videos/comments/2ejpbb/yes_it_is_true_i_boiled_my_gopro_to_get_you_this/ck0btnb/?context=3&st=j0qt0xnf&sh=ef13ba81 Fracking shill whistleblower spills the beans on Fracking Internet PR
https://np.reddit.com/worldnews/comments/31wo57/the_chevron_tapes_video_shows_oil_giant_allegedly/cq5uhse?context=3 https://i.imgur.com/Q3gjFg9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/q2uFIV0.jpg TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Operations
October 16, 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE CIA
Subject: After action report of
Operation CUCKOO (TS)
INTRODUCTION
1) Operation CUCKOO was part of the overall operation CLEANSWEEP, aimed at eliminating domestic opposition to activities undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency's special activities division, in main regard to operation GUILLOTINE.
2) Operation CUCKOO was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense and the office of The President of the United States as a covert domestic action to be under taken within the limits of Washington D.C as outlined by Secret Executive Order 37.
3) Following the publishing of the Warren Commission, former special agent Mary Pinchot Meyer (Operation MOCKINGBIRD, Operation SIREN) also was married to Cord Meyer (Operation MOCKINGBIRD, Operation GUILLOTINE) threatened to disclose the details of several Special Activities Divisions' operations, including but not limited to, Operation SIREN and GUILLOTENE.
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TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN
4) It was deemed necessary by senior Directorate of Operations members to initiate Operation CUCKOO as an extension of Operation CLEANSWEEP on November 30th. After Mary Pinchot Meyer threatened to report her knowledge of Operation GUILLOTENE and the details of her work in Operation SIREN from her affair with the former President.
5) Special Activities Division was given the green light after briefing president Johnson on the situation. The situation report was forwarded to the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of staff, who both approved of the parameters of the operation, as outlined under article C of secret executive order 37 (see attached copy of article).
PLANNING STAGES
6) 8 members of the special activities division handpicked by operation lead William King Harvey began planning for the operation on October 3rd, with planned execution before October 16th.
7) The (?) of the operation was set as the neighborhood of Georgetown along the Potomac river, where the operators would observe, take note on routines, and eventually carry the operation.
8) After nothing Meyer's routines, Edward "Eddy" Reid was picked as the operation point man who would intersect Meyer on her walk on October 12th, with lead William King Harvey providing long range support if necessary from across the Chesapeake and Ohio canal (see illustration A for detailed map).
9) Edward Reid was planned to be dressed in the manner of a homeless black man, due to his resemblances to local trash collector (later found out to be Raymond Crump) who inhabits the AO and the path that Reid was planned to intersect Meyer.
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TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN
#Government Shills
- [The Guardian: British army creates team of Facebook warriors](
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/31/british-army-facebook-warriors-77th-brigade)
- [The Guardian: US military studied how to influence Twitter [and Reddit] users in Darpa-funded research [2014]](
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies)
- [The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is developing a secret, multimillion-pound research programme into the future of cyberwarfare, including how emerging technologies such as social media and psychological techniques can be harnessed by the military to influence people's beliefs. [2014]](
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/ma16/mod-secret-cyberwarfare-programme)
- [Vice: Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs](
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/your-government-wants-to-militarize-social-media-to-influence-your-beliefs)
- [NY Times: The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in “covert propaganda” and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an Obama administration rule intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded.](
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/us/politics/epa-broke-the-law-by-using-social-media-to-push-water-rule-auditor-finds.html)
- [CBC News- Canadian government monitors online forums](
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bureaucrats-monitor-online-forums-1.906351)
- [Slate on 2018 midterms interference: "Project Lakhta was a Russian influence campaign that had no particular ideological bent; it appears that the goal was simply to stir up conflict in online political debates by putting forth extreme arguments and inflammatory misinformation to incense both liberals and conservatives."](
https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/what-we-know-about-the-russian-woman-whom-the-u-s-just-charged-for-meddling-in-the-midterms.html)
- [NY Times: The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz (Cambridge Analytica)](
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda-of-a-facebook-quiz.html)
- [NY Times- From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.](
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=1)
- [Washington Post: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election ](
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election/2017/09/06/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.53932fce0e4c)
- [New York Times: "Hundreds of people work at a so-called troll farm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to smother the voices of dissidents like Mr. Khashoggi."](
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/politics/saudi-image-campaign-twitter.html)
- [CNN: Facebook announces first takedown of influence campaign with ties to Saudi government](
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/facebook-saudi-arabia-pages-removed/index.html)
- [The Nation: US Officials Won’t Say if a New Anti–Russian Propaganda Project (shilling on social media) Is Targeting Americans. The newly created Global Engagement Center’s “focus and intent” is foreign audiences, but officials won’t rule out propagandizing Americans and funding American journalists.](
https://www.thenation.com/article/us-officials-wont-say-if-a-new-anti-russia-propaganda-project-is-targeting-americans/)
- [Ex -MMA fighter and ex-police officer exposes corrupt police practices, which includes infiltrating Reddit communities and becoming moderators in order to manipulate and censor information.](
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/6jn27s/ex_mma_fighter_and_expolice_officer_exposes/)
- [Times of Israel: Israeli government paying bilingual students to spread propaganda online primarily to international communities without having to identify themselves as working for the government. "The [student] union will operate computer rooms for the project...it was decided to establish a permanent structure of activity on the Internet through the students at academic institutions in the country."](
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pmo-stealthily-recruiting-students-for-online-advocacy/)
- [The Intercept: Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies." TigerSwan attempted a counterinformation campaign by creating and distributing content critical of the protests on social media.](
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/)
- [WashingtonPost: Obama pick for NSA review panel wanted paid, pro-government shills in chat rooms](
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/23/obama-pick-for-nsa-review-panel-wanted-paid-pro-government-shills-in-chat-rooms/) (Thread with [source paper.](
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/4d3l3s/government_agents_and_their_allies_might_ente))
- [Psy Group developed elaborate information operations for commercial clients and political candidates around the world, which included infiltrating target audiences with elaborately crafted social-media personas. The CEO of PSY Group was former commander of an Israeli psychological warfare unit. Tactics deployed by PSY Group in foreign elections included inflaming divisions in opposition groups and playing on deep-seated cultural and ethnic conflicts, something the firm called “poisoning the well." It has conducted messaging/influence operations in well over a dozen languages and dialects and employs an elite group of high-ranking former officers from some of the world’s most renowned intelligence units.](
http://archive.is/BBblQ)
- [Wired: Clinton Staff and Volunteers Busted for Astroturfing [in 2007]](
http://www.wired.com/2007/12/clinton-staff-a/)
- [Vice: Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement](
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement)
- [The Intercept: The Rise of the Net Center. How an Army of Trolls Protects Guatemala’s Corrupt Elite.](
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/07/guatemala-anti-corruption-trolls-smear-campaign/)
- [The Independent: Massive British PR firm caught on video: "We've got all sorts of dark arts...The ambition is to drown that negative content and make sure that you have positive content online." They discuss techniques for managing reputations online and creating/maintaining 3rd-party blogs that seem independent.](
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-top-lobbyists-boasting-how-they-influence-the-pm-6272760.html)
- [The Guardian: US spy operation to manipulate social media](
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/ma17/us-spy-operation-social-networks)
- [Washington Post: Why crafty Internet trolls in the Philippines may be coming to a website near you](
https://web.archive.org/web/20190801065640/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/why-crafty-internet-trolls-in-the-philippines-may-be-coming-to-a-website-near-you/2019/07/25/c5d42ee2-5c53-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?utm_term=.f7d1ebb7c19b)
- [BBC: Vietnam admits deploying bloggers to support the Communist Party's policies, operates a network of nearly 1,000 "public opinion shapers".](
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20982985)
- [Glenn Greenwald: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations](
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/)
- [The Intercept: Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations](
https://theintercept.com/document/2015/06/22/behavioural-science-support-jtrig/)
- [USA Today: The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor.](
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-05-24/Leonie-usa-today-propaganda-pentagon/55190450/1)
- [Glenn Greenwald: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet](
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/)
- [The Guardian: Chinese officials flood the Chinese internet with positive social media posts to distract their population](
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/chinese-officials-create-488m-social-media-posts-a-year-study-finds)
- [The Guardian: Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown - Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements. "Minerva"-funded social scientists tied to Pentagon counterinsurgency operations are involved in the "study of emotions in stoking or quelling ideologically driven movements," he said, including how "to counteract grassroots movements."](
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown)
- [Bloomberg: How to Hack an Election [and influence voters with fake social media accounts]](
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/)
- [USA Today: Businesses and organizations may refer to it as a tool for competitive advantage and marketing; but make no mistake, they are using the massive reach of social media and the Internet as a weapon. One U.S. 3-letter special agent said, "You could influence an election with this."](
http://archive.is/37tK3)
- [Times of Israel - The internet: Israel’s new PR battlefield](
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/)
- [Arstechnica: GCHQ’s menu of tools spreads disinformation across Internet-
“Effects capabilities” allow analysts to twist truth subtly or spam relentlessly.](
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/ghcqs-chinese-menu-of-tools-spread-disinformation-across-internet/)
- [The Guardian: Internet Astroturfing](
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/dec/13/astroturf-libertarians-internet-democracy)
- [BBC News: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed](
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm)
- [Israel is paying internet workers to manipulate online content such as Wikipedia](
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x2DFnGI9Ac) (2 minute video)
- [Buzzfeed: Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America](
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america#.ki8Mz97ly)
- [NY Times: Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation](
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html?_r=1)
- [Raw Story: CENTCOM engages bloggers](
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Raw_obtains_CENTCOM_email_to_bloggers_1016.html)
- [Wired: Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders](
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/01/usaf-blog-respo/)
- [Wired: Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’](
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/03/report-recruit/)
- [The Guardian: Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war](
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/nov/20/mondaymediasection.israel)
- [BBC News: China's Internet spin doctors](
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7783640.stm)
- [Raw Story: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people](
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/revealed-air-force-ordered-software-to-manage-army-of-fake-virtual-people/)
- [DailyKos: HBGary: Automated social media management](
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All)
- [Huffington Post- Exposing Cyber Shills and Social Media's Underworld](
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-fiorella/cyber-shills_b_2803801.html)
- [Wall Street Journal: Turkey's Government Forms 6,000-Member Social Media Team](
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323527004579079151479634742?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887323527004579079151479634742.html)
- [The Bush and Gore campaigns of 2000 used methods similar to the Chinese government for conducting “guided discussions” in chatrooms designed to influence citizens](
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/3xhoq8/til_the_advent_of_social_media_offers_new_routes/?st=j0o5xr9c&sh=3662f0dc)
- [Salon: Why Reddit moderators are censoring Glenn Greenwald’s latest news story on shills](
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partne)
#Shilling in the Private Sector
- [NPR: Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They're Paid For. "Much like Amazon itself is a marketplace for goods, a world of separate, shadow marketplaces exists where reviews for Amazon products are bought and paid for — private Facebook groups, Slack channels, subreddits and more."](
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for)
- [Fake five-star reviews being bought and sold online - Fake online reviews are being openly traded on the internet, a BBC investigation has found.](
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43907695)
- [Yahoo News: Last month the FTC issued warnings to celebrities who plugged products on their Instagram accounts without clearly identifying their relationships with brands. The letters were meant to educate the celebrities on posting without violating the organization’s disclosure guidelines.](
https://www.yahoo.com/style/ftc-issued-warnings-45-celebrities-212910992.html)
- [New York Times: Tobacco corporations are targeting young American consumers with deceptive social media marketing in violation of federal law. 123 hashtags associated with these companies’ tobacco products have been viewed 8.8 billion times in the United States alone and 25 billion times around the world.](
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/health/tobacco-social-media-smoking.html)
- [PBS Frontline Documentary - Generation Like](
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/)
- [USA Today: Lord & Taylor settles FTC charges over paid Instagram posts](
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/03/15/lord--taylor-settles-ftc-charges-over-paid-instagram-posts/81801972/)
- [Wired: Microsoft, through an outside agency, paid Machinima to produce positive videos about the Xbox One game machine, and many of the YouTube stars who accepted the deal failed to properly disclose that they were producing paid, sponsored content, not independent analysis.](
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/ftc-machinima-microsoft-youtube/)
- [CNBC: The Federal Reserve Bank is soliciting proposals from developers for a "Social Listening Platform" that will monitor "Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube...to "Handle crisis situations, "continuously monitor conversations, identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers." [2011]](
https://www.cnbc.com/id/44701381)
- [CNN: A PR firm has revealed that it is behind two blogs that previously appeared to be created by independent supporters of Wal-Mart. The blogs Working Families for Wal-mart and subsidiary site Paid Critics are written by 3 employees of PR firm Edelman, for whom Wal-Mart is a paid client. [2006]](
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/20/news/companies/walmart_blogs/index.htm)
- [The Verge: Anti-net neutrality spammers are impersonating real people to flood FCC comments](
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities)
- [Vice: Trolls Paid by a Telecom Lobbying Firm Keep Commenting on My Net Neutrality Articles](
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/trolls-paid-by-a-telecom-lobbying-firm-keep-commenting-on-my-net-neutrality-articles-806)
- [The Guardian: In a New York investigation dubbed "Operation Clean Turf," dentists, lawyers, an ultra-sound clinic, Staten Island bus company US Coachways, a charter bus operator, a teeth-whitening service, a laser hair-removal chain and an adult entertainment club were caught buying fake reviews. The fake review companies posted on sites like Citysearch, Google, Yahoo and Yelp.](
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/new-york-fake-online-reviews-yoghurt)
- [New York Times: When a Company's Product Is Under Fire, One Option is to Plant a Defender in the Chat Room](
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/circuits/articles/14spin.html)
- [Time: Social Media Manipulation? When “Indie” Bloggers and Businesses Get Cozy](
http://business.time.com/2013/04/22/social-media-manipulation-when-indie-bloggers-and-businesses-get-cozy/)
- [New York Times: Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You](
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/give-yourself-4-stars-online-it-might-cost-you.html?src=me&ref=general)
- [Chicago Tribune: Nutrition for sale: How Kellogg worked with 'independent experts' to tout cereal](
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-kellogg-independent-experts-cereal-20161121-story.html)
- [The Atlantic: Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter, this illegal advertisement did not contain any risk information or language specifying that it was a paid endorsement.](
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/fda-drug-promotion-social-media/404563/)
- [Warner Brothers fined for paying YouTube celebs to promote game without properly disclosing that the videos were paid endorsements.](
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/12/warner-brothers-fined-for-paying-youtube-celebs-to-promote-game/?ncid=mobilenavtrend)
- [Gamers promote gaming-gambling site on youtube by pretending to hit jackpot without disclosing that they own the site. They tried to retroactively write a disclosure covering their tracks, but were caught.](
http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-lotto-investigation-uncovers-colossal-conflict-of-interest/)
- [CSGO Lotto Owners Settle FTC’s First-Ever Complaint Against Individual Social Media Influencers](
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/09/csgo-lotto-owners-settle-ftcs-first-ever-complaint-against)
- ["Internet Reputation Management," founded by three partners in the New York area, recruits bloggers to write about clients on third-party sites, without necessarily disclosing that they're paid](
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-30/do-reputation-management-services-work-businessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice)
- [Slate: Want to Get Paid For TV Criticism? Shill for DISH.](
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/02/07/paid_internet_commenters_an_investigation_into_the_bizarrely_complex_marketing.html)
- [Sony viral marketing campaign exposed (2006). The company admits they ran the shady advertising campaign.](
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2006/dec/11/newsonyviral)
- [ADWEEK: Marketing on Reddit Is Scary, But These Success Stories Show Big Potential](
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/marketing-reddit-scary-these-success-stories-show-big-potential-168278)
- [BBC news: Amazon targets 1,114 'fake reviewers' in Seattle lawsuit](
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34565631)
- [New York Times: Lifestyle Lift, a cosmetic surgery company, reached a settlement with the State of New York over its attempts to fake positive consumer reviews on the Web. The company had ordered employees to pretend they were satisfied customers and write glowing reviews of its face-lift procedure on Web sites](
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/technology/internet/15lift.html?_r=1&emc=eta1)
- [Samsung Electronics Fined for Fake Online Comments](
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/samsung-electronics-fined-for-fake-online-comments/?_r=0) [in Taiwan]
#Shill Bots
- [Artificial intelligence chatbots will overwhelm human speech online; the rise of MADCOMs](
https://medium.com/artificial-intelligence-policy-laws-and-ethics/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-will-overwhelm-human-speech-online-the-rise-of-madcoms-e007818f31a1)
- [Russian bots were active on Reddit last year, from
/RussiaLago](
https://np.reddit.com/RussiaLago/comments/76cq4d/exclusive_we_can_now_definitively_state_that/?st=j8s7535j&sh=36805d5d)
- [BBC- How online chatbots are already tricking you- Intelligent machines that can pass for humans have long been dreamed of, but as Chris Baraniuk argues, they’re already among us. The ramifications of astroturfing are in fact so serious that the US Department of Defense funded research to detect chatbots.](
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140609-how-online-bots-are-tricking-you)
- [Wired: Powered by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, propaganda bots will soon run on genetic algorithms that let their ideas and messaging evolve, based on the resonance and effectiveness of previous messages. We are likely to see versions of these bots deployed on US audiences as part of the 2016 presidential election campaigns.](
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/06/wired-world-2015/robot-propaganda)
- [BBC: More than four times as many tweets were made by automated accounts in favour of Donald Trump around the first US presidential debate as by those backing Hillary Clinton, a study says.](
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37684418)
- [Discover Magazine: Researchers Uncover Twitter Bot Army That’s 350,000 Strong](
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/01/20/twitter-bot-army/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverTechnology%20%28Discover%20Technology%29#.WIMl-oiLTnA)
- [The Rise of Social Bots](
http://www.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204021-the-rise-of-social-bots/fulltext)
- [Forbes: From Tinder Bots To 'Cuban Twitter', Welcome To 'Cognitive Hacking'](
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/17/from-tinder-bots-to-covert-social-networks-welcome-to-cognitive-hacking/#4b78e2d92a7d)
- [Wired: Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists](
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/pro-government-twitter-bots-try-hush-mexican-activists/)
#Information about shilling on Reddit
- [
slaterhearst spammed Reddit with links to The Atlantic. "The Daily Dot has confirmed that slaterhearst was Jared Keller, the associate editor and social media editor at magazine giant The Atlantic."](
https://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-keller-reddit/)
- [Forbes: Reddit Is Being Manipulated By Big Financial Services Companies](
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgrego2017/02/20/reddit-is-being-manipulated-by-big-financial-services-companies/#30b8b4f74c92)
- [User pushes InfoWars links on Reddit, eventually admits to working for Infowars.](
https://np.reddit.com/shills/comments/6uau99/chemicals_in_reddit_are_turning_memes_gay_take/?st=j6r0g2om&sh=96f3dbf4)
- [Shareblue accounts caught in
/politics posting links to Shareblue without disclosing their affiliation, which caused the mods to create a new disclosure rule and an official Shareblue account was registered. About a month later, Shareblue was again caught shilling on
/politics without disclosing ties to the outlet, which caused them to ban Shareblue links to the sub.](
http://archive.is/7HAkr)
- [Hillary Clinton Super Pac and "strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks" openly admits to shilling on Reddit.](
https://web.archive.org/web/20160618091140/http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-correct-the-record/)
- [User posts video using GoPro, gets video to front page, admits in comments that GoPro sent him free cameras in exchange for advertising.](
https://np.reddit.com/videos/comments/2ejpbb/yes_it_is_true_i_boiled_my_gopro_to_get_you_this/ck0btnb/?context=3&st=j0qt0xnf&sh=ef13ba81) (archive:
http://archive.is/ICGrl)
- [Top mod of
/Mechanical_Gifs tries to sell subreddit on ebay for 999.00 dollars.](
http://archive.is/kU1Ly)
- [How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts - According to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days the Reddit crew just faked it ‘til they made it.](
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2)
- [Shill posts picture of a dog in a hammock with the brand clearly visible without indicating that it's an ad in the title of the post, making it an illegal advertisement. Later, he posts a promo code in the comments for 20 percent off his hammocks.](
http://archive.is/Mfdk9)
- [Redditor who works for a potato mailing company admits to being a shill. He shows off his 27 thousand dollars he made in
/pics](
http://i.imgur.com/CcTHwdS.png) (Screenshot because he deleted his posts.) [[Here's the thread.](
https://np.reddit.com/HailCorporate/comments/3gl8zi/that_potato_mailing_company_is_at_it_again/)]
- [
/netsec talks about gaming reddit via sockpuppets and how online discourse is (easily) manipulated.](
https://np.reddit.com/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock_puppets_in_rnetsec_last_year_and_are)
- [Reddit is being gamed by professional shills every day. We investigate how widespread the problem of fake comments and fake votes is in our Reddit For Sale follow-up. [11:48]](
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uIrnEIuL8o&t)
- [Reddit For Sale: How We Bought The Top Spot For $200 [8:27]](
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAkUs3urrg)
- [Some websites use shill accounts to spam their competitor's articles, causing their competitors to become banned on Reddit.](
https://np.reddit.com/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1ja4nf/lets_talk_about_those_playing_reddit_with/?st=iunay35w&sh=d841095d)
- [Wikileaks: Reddit cofounder consulting for Stratfor to bring in the social media dollars](
https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=282044)
- [Shilling on Reddit is openly admitted to in this Forbes article](
http://www.forbes.com/sites/julesschroede2016/03/10/the-magic-formula-behind-going-viral-on-reddit/#1d2485b05271)
- [What I learned selling my Reddit accounts](
https://medium.com/@Rob79/what-i-learned-selling-my-reddit-accounts-c5e9f6348005#.u5zt0mti3)
- [Reddit automation bot: "Run Up To 100 Threads, Checks For Valid Proxy Access & Also To Check If Banned From Site, Keyword Based Submission Finder & Vote Up/Down Capabilities, Mass upvote or downvote Mode..."](
https://web.archive.org/web/20160323141612/http://www.blackhattoolz.com/redditbot.php)
- [
Boostupvotes.com](
https://archive.fo/WdbYQ)
- [Reddit Secrets, buy upvotes](
https://archive.fo/SCWN7)
- [Reddit Secrets, buy pre-aged and high karma accounts](
https://archive.fo/NAwBx)
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