US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program

chrb writes "The Guardian and The Telegraph are reporting that US based Ntrepid Corporation has been awarded a $2.76 million contract to develop software aimed at manipulating social media. The project aims to enable military personnel to control multiple 'sock puppets' located at a range of geographically diverse IP addresses, with the aim of spreading pro-US propaganda. The project will not target English speaking web sites (yet) but will be limited to foreign languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto. The project will be funded as part of the $200 million Operation Earnest Voice program run by US Central Command."

Unbellythinkful

[Errol backfiring]

Really, calling propaganda "Operation Earnest Voice"? I think a few braincells just exploded.

Re:Unbellythinkful

[Magada]

What would you want it to be called? "Operation Naked Truth"?

Re:Unbellythinkful

[Anonymous Coward]

Operation 15/f/Kabul ;-)

Are you paying US taxes?

[Anonymous Coward]

An American would not spell "dishonorable" the way you did.

Re:So when should we expect sock puppets here?

[Abstrackt]

Nah, the military is way too busy defending our freedoms and improving the world we live in to spend time posting on Slashdot!

(This message brought to you by the US military)

Re:I, for one, salute our new sock-puppet overlord

[cayenne8]

Well, I'd say it would have been a good idea....if they could have kept it fscking SECRET....

Now..wouldn't any pro-USA comments on any ME message board or whatever now be suspected of being a sockpuppet?

I guess we now have a new meme: On the internet...

All the men are men

All the women are men

All the kids are FBI agents

And...all the pro-USA guys in foreign forums are CIA agents.