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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by tehjoker on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:25AM (#35861821)
From my experiences on Twitter with various anonymous accounts parroting the state department line, and US military doctrine for total domination of the battle space, I am absolutely sure they are doing this either via a contractor, ally, or inside cyber command or DIA etc. The 2012 NDAA removed the ban on US domestic influence operations.
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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by olah_1 on Monday May 08, 2023 @12:30PM (#35863589)
> I am absolutely sure they are doing this either via a contractor, ally, or inside cyber command or DIA etc

Or they use AI. Would be very easy actually.

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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by jstarfish on Monday May 08, 2023 @12:48PM (#35863861)
It's not a good look for us to be promoting international adoption of the internet while being caught using it to commit subterfuge abroad.

I've never heard of any such domestic department myself. Like the rest of our intelligence work, I assume we outsource that job to the Israelis.

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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by nocsi on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:52PM (#35868509)
You can see exactly who is performing the work based on defense contractor job postings matching sock puppet programs.

Spoiler: a lot of agencies have a program need for this type of thing

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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by tehjoker on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:29PM (#35868790)
Can you elaborate? That's so interesting.
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