A sweeping new Department of Defense review follows the removal of Twitter, Insta, and Facebook accounts, suspected of being run by the U.S. military.
in the use of social media to sway public perception. But clearly, the United States is seeking to use the internet to curry influence abroad as well.
Although the report didn’t explicitly attribute the bunk accounts to the U.S. military, Twitter and Meta reported that the false activity originated mostly in the U.S.. The researchers further found the accounts had the hallmark traits of an intentional influence campaign. WaPo further reported today that the, the use of social media and fabricated accounts is relatively recent. And, worth noting, lying online is not explicitly against Pentagon policy.
Pentagon policy and doctrine discourage the military from peddling falsehoods, but there are no specific rules mandating the use of truthful information for psychological operations. For instance, the military sometimes employs fiction and satire for persuasion purposes, but generally the messages are supposed to stick to facts, officials said.Success of influence campaigns can be difficult to measure, but the Stanford and Graphika analysis doesn’t bode well for the U.S. efforts.
A full 81% of the accounts and pages had fewer than 1,000 followers, and most tweets garnered fewer than one like or retweet. “Tellingly, the two most followed assets in the data provided by Twitter were overt accounts that publicly declared a connection to the U.S. military,” the authors wrote.
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