Below you'll find everything that has been published on EPJ for the week ended Friday April 4, 2014. The hottest posts for each day are highlighted in red.
Friday 4/4/14
- Upgrade Your Life, Keep Your Phone Number Private and Save Big with Jenny’s Number
- Perks Are For Perps With The Right Pigmentation
- In the New Ideological Cold War, Whose Side is God on Now?
- Which Reporters Is Fed Chair Janet Yellen Afraid Of?
- Mark Cuban: How the SEC Tried to Rig My Prosecution
- Minimum Wage Laws Are Fundamentally Anti-Labor and Anti-Poor People
- Ron Paul: The Problem with US Sanctions Against Russia
- The Kochtopus Spotted in Florida
- Peter Schiff: The Audacious Attempt to Promote Price Inflation
- The Man Who Took 445 Selfie Photos Over 30 Years, Before Smart Phones, and Nobody Knows Why
- Hillary's Regrets
- Senator Dan Coats Asks Wrong Question to Wrong Person at Wrong Hearing
- Feds Form Grand Jury to Probe Chris Christie’s Role in Bridgegate
Thursday 4/3/14
- Women Have Their Own Agendas, and If These Agendas Do Not Usually Include Computer Engineering, What Is to Be Done?
- The Pro-Stagnation Left in Action: Vomit on Yahoo Bus in Oakland
- The Crony Doth Protest Too Much
- L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department
- Jeremy Stein Submits Resignation as a Member of the Federal Reserve
- The Rules That Will Save You From the Jaws of Hell...
- MEDDLING: US Created "Twitter" Account to Spread Propaganda Inside Cuba
- Nelson Mandela and That Song
- Mark Perry Rips Apart the Alleged Gender Pay Gap Claims
- How to Avoid the Flu When You Fly
- George Soros Wins a Big Round in the Suit Filed Against Him by Brazilian Ex-Girlfriend
- Coming Up on The Robert Wenzel Show
- Bleeding Heart Libertarian: Koch, Soros and Adelson are Idiots By Spending Money Buying Politicians
- Major Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Has Stopped Taking New Deposits
- Top Cities for Pay Raises (Or Where Newly Printed Fed Money is Having the Biggest Impact)
- Small Government Illusions (Pethokoukis Edition)
- Major Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Has Stopped Taking New Deposits
Wednesday 4/2/14
- It Is a Disgrace That the Average White 7th- or 8th-Grader Can Run Circles Around the Average Black 12th-Grader in Most Academic Subjects
- China Orders Big Banks to Close Bitcoin Trading Accounts
- Harvard Economist Warns About Price Inflation
- Is the Problem with NBA Players That They Are Not "Selfless"?
- AMAZING VIDEO: What's Scaring the Buffalo in Yellowstone National Park?
- Two Institutional Traders Speak Out About High Frequency Trading
- Amazon Announces A New TV Streaming Box
- On Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls and Being a Good Employee
- Mother Jones: Will Jesse Benton Get Caught Up in a Bribery Investigation?
- The Awe-Inspiring Power of Ideas
- The "There is No Inflation" Report: Maid’s Apartment in NYC sells for $3M
- Comments on Comments
- BREAKING Reports Multiple Injuries from Fort Hood Shooting, Gunman is Believed to be Inside Medical Brigade Building
- Peter Schiff: Gold Under the Radar
- Lew Rockwell Weighs in on the Recent Supreme Court Decision on Political Campaign Contributions
- Two Invasions – and One Truth
- Bitcoin ATM Yanked After Brief Debut..and Other Problems
- On The REAL Threat Against Blacks and Jews
- Paul Craig Roberts: IMF Loans Will Hand Ukraine Over to Banksters
- Recent Book Arrivals
- INCREDIBLE The War Party Oligarch that Has Presidential Hopefuls Groveling
- Could the Shadowy Network of Rand Paul’s Old Fundraising Machine Sink His Presidential Ambitions?
- NFL Teams To Allow Cheerleaders To Visit Fans In Their Seats During Games
- Bestselling Books at EPJ in the Month of March 2014
- Michael Lewis’s Flawed New Book
- Rand Paul's Top Aide Makes Clear That Rand is Not Opposed to Sanctions
- New Investigation Into Ron Paul Inc. and Sorenson Payoff
- Having a Difficult Time Trying to Follow the Logic in This Paragraph
- Condo Prices Go Crazy in San Francisco and NYC
- Eric Cantor: Crafter of Fairy Tales
- Charlie Shrem In Talks Over Plea Deal
- The Best Places To Find Off-the-Wall Warmongering "Analysis"...
- Analyst: Bitcoin Could Disappear Completely
- Loony Left Stage Google Bus ‘Performance’ in San Francisco
- Colorado Town Considers Letting Residents Shoot at Drones
- First Quarter Performance of Bitcoin Worse Than Argentine Peso
- See a Preview of James Gandolfini's Final Performance in "The Drop" Trailer
- Overheard on the Streets of San Francisco
- What Would You Do If You Were in Putin's Shoes?
- What Libertarianism Is, and Isn't
- Samuel Adams on What It Takes
- The Nonsense Surrounding Michael Lewis's Contention That the Stock Market is Rigged
- Law Student Arrested on Completely Bogus Charges
- Forbes Is Clueless About HFT
- Young People are Moving to Pittsburgh Like Crazy
- Paper Never Beats Rock
- How High Frequency Trading Helps Markets Become More Efficient
- AWESOME: De Blasio booed by Mets fans during 1st pitch
- You Don't Have to be a Statist to Hate Bitcoin
- How to Profit Off of High Frequency Traders...
- Is the US Government Trying to Prevent Taiwan from Having Closer Ties with China?
- Daily Beast Takes Down Mitch McConnell and Jesse Benton
- Why Rand Paul is Such a Disappointment
- Cato Shrugged Analyst: Putin 'Wants to Regain Finland'
- CNN: New IRS rules make using Bitcoins a fiasco
- ‘Just Salute and Follow Orders’: When Secrecy and Surveillance Trump the Rule of Law
- Walter Block on Refereeing in Mainstream Journals
- Dr. Michael Edelstein, Author of "Three Minute Therapy": Today on The Robert Wenzel Show
- A Tiger of a Book
- Unnatural Death #13: JP Morgan Bankruptcy Lawyer Killed While Cycling
- Major Hollywood Movie Studio to Release Film Distorting Anarchy
- Black Rainstorm Warning Issued in Hong Kong
- The Fat Man Screws Up at the "Sheldon Adelson Primary"
- Daily Paul reacts to Benton in the Beast
- Obama’s War on History
- Major League Baseball Adds Super-High Tech Replay Call Reviews
- Mysterious New Book About Wall Street Due Out Monday; Will It Rock the Street?
- Bitcoin Supporters Clash
- Biden Economics: Minimum Wage Hike Worth Billions, ‘Really Good for the Economy’
- Shocking Statistics on Black Youth Unemployment
- VIDEO Bitcoin Fanboy Eats His Hat as Bitcoin Price Crashes
- How to Teach Kids about Taxes
- Feminism: Socialism in Panties
- Bizarre Arguments and Behavior
- Don't Be Fooled: The IMF Stands For and Operationalizes US Power
- Obama Blows Smoke at Putin
- Where's Rand? This Weekend is the "Sheldon Adelson Primary"
- Maria Bartiromo: What Went Wrong at CNBC, and Why the ‘Money Honey’ Moved to Fox
- Liberty versus Statism: A Report from Murray Sabrin
- My Secret Career Weapon: LinkedIn
- Maryland's Healthcare Exchange Broken Beyond Repair
- Wall Street Journal Quotes Ludwig von Mises
- Hayek on Horology
- How Much Does Obamacare Rip Off Young Adults?
- WTF YAL?
- Soros Doesn't Understand Power
- Creative Writer: Raising the Minimum Wage is a Women's Issue
The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket
ReplyDeleteThese ideas–discussions of how to exploit the internet, specifically social media, to surreptitiously disseminate viewpoints friendly to western interests and spread false or damaging information about targets–appear repeatedly throughout the archive of materials provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Documents prepared by NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ–and previously published by The Intercept as well as some by NBC News–detailed several of those programs, including a unit devoted in part to “discrediting” the agency’s enemies with false information spread online.
(The GCHQ document also describes a practice called “credential harvesting,” which NBC described as an effort to “select journalists who could be used to spread information” that the government wants distributed. According to the NBC report, GCHQ agents would employ “electronic snooping to identify non-British journalists who would then be manipulated to feed information to the target of a covert campaign.” Then, “the journalist’s job would provide access to the targeted individual, perhaps for an interview.” Anonymous sources that NBC didn’t characterize claimed at the time that GCHQ had not employed the technique.)
But these documents, along with the AP’s exposure of the sham “Cuban Twitter” program, underscore how aggressively western governments are seeking to exploit the internet as a means to manipulate political activity and shape political discourse.
Those programs, carried out in secrecy and with little accountability (it seems nobody in Congress knew of the “Cuban Twitter” program in any detail) threaten the integrity of the internet itself, as state-disseminated propaganda masquerades as free online speech and organizing. There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is precisely what makes it so appealing to intelligence agencies, so powerful, and so dangerous.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/04/04/cuban-twitter-scam-social-media-tool-disseminating-government-propaganda/