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US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts
It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again the media is now admitting that the US military and intelligence agencies are indeed running massive propaganda campaigns that cover a vast array of online networks.

Daily Kos – HBGary, Themis, bloggers, and traditional media: What a tangled Web
In a nutshell, a security firm called HBGary, apparently hired by the legal firm Hunton and Williams on behalf of Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce—at the recommendation of the Justice Department—boasted about attempts to infiltrate the group called Anonymous, the loose affiliation of hackers supporting WikiLeaks. Anonymous certainly showed HBGary, hacking the vaunted security company’s system and obtaining something like 75,000 exceedingly incriminating e-mails “to launch a highly sophisticated campaign to subvert and sabotage the enemies of their clients. In some cases these plans involved illegal actions. The targets were journalists, labor unions, and political opponents.“

. . . and this most foul example of Face Book abuse