Another Blow: Obama's Online Astroturfers Investigated; Multiple Aliases And Personas
The following two reports should explain what many have witnessed here and elsewhere since Obama’s usurpation…
Obamacare Facebook page comments mostly from small group of supporters
Poll trolls’ GCHQ script sock
puppets manipulate muppets
Darren Pauli | The Register
Researchers Azhar Desa, Harron Meer and Marco Slaviero of Thinkst found posts created around controversial topics such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were being heavily manipulated by commentary developed by bash scripts using newly-registered accounts.
Using a since patched flaw in comment platform Disqus, researchers plucked email addresses from suspect profiles used in “sock-puppet” commentary and found those in question had identification numbers in sequence, were used across the same forums, repeated comments and bumped up each other’s posts.
The identity of those behind the aliases was unknown.
The fake accounts were designed as supporters of Palestine and Islam, and opponents to Israel, Syria, Christianity and US President Barack Obama.
Researchers also found separate puppet armies influencing articles on Reddit, CNN, Al Jazeera and the Jerusalem Post generated by simplistic means that admins appeared unable to identify.
“Who is this sock puppet army? It’s difficult to speculate – it’s a simplistic attack, so we’re not sure if this is because they lack the skills set, or if they were intending to be found,” Slaviero told delegates at the Hack in the Box conference last month, (slides) Digital News Asia reported.
The team, which was developing free tools to let everyone troll more effectively, used similar techniques to successfully influence popular news stories on the front page of The New York Times, South Africa’s popular Mail and Guardian, Reddit, and mailing lists.
You could create accounts and share an article from the same IP for about 10,000 shares, and then you switch to another IP again, and that was enough to bump an article up 15 or so spots (on the Times) from the bottom of the list, he told Risky Business in a podcast interview. [...] Continued @ The Register. Hat tip opennext.
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