Re:U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to under...
by freeflight on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:31AM
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I would be very surprised if this hasn't been going on for years already, back in 2014 they were already as far as using Facebook users as test-groups [0].
Then there was also the case of a Pentagon contractor leaving their AWS buckets open exposing billions of scraped social media posts. [1]
As much as people can reach for benign reasons for "research" like this, the reality is that it's not solely done to "understand" movements but rather to better influence them [2].
Then there was also the case of a Pentagon contractor leaving their AWS buckets open exposing billions of scraped social media posts. [1]
As much as people can reach for benign reasons for "research" like this, the reality is that it's not solely done to "understand" movements but rather to better influence them [2].
[0] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zm5k4a/the-troubling-lin...
[1] https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-centcom
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...