Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Internet Plague: Paid Shills in Comments
November 27th, 2011See, Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army for more. Via: BBC: Trust in information on the web is being damaged by the huge numbers of people paid by companies to post comments online, say researchers. Fake posters can “poison” debate and make people unsure about who they can trust, the study suggests. Some firms […]
Climategate 2.0 Emails
November 26th, 2011WattsUpWithThat Climategate 2 FOIA 2011 Searchable Database
Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army
November 23rd, 2011Via: Technology Review: An undercover team of computer scientists reveals the practices of people who are paid to post on websites. In China, paid posters are known as the Internet Water Army because they are ready and willing to ‘flood’ the internet for whoever is willing to pay. The flood can consist of comments, gossip […]
Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey
November 9th, 2011Via: Food Safety News: More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled “honey.” The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a […]
Fracking Industry Executives Suggest Military PSYOP Techniques to Peers for Dealing with Public
November 9th, 2011Click through for the audio recordings. Via: CNBC: Last week’s oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston was supposed to be an industry confab just like any other — a series of panel discussions, light refreshments and an exchange of ideas. It was a gathering of professionals to discuss “media and stakeholder […]
Olympus Admits It Hid Losses For Decades
November 8th, 2011Via: Reuters: Japan’s Olympus admitted on Tuesday it hid losses on securities investments dating back to the 1980s, bowing to weeks of pressure to explain a series of baffling transactions that have put the future of the firm in doubt. The revelations by the 92-year-old maker of endoscopes and cameras appear to vindicate ex-CEO Michael […]
CIA’s Vengeful Librarians
November 5th, 2011Here’s one for your Complete Lack of Surprise file folder. Via: AP: In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, […]
GlaxoSmithKline Will Pay $3 Billion to Resolve U.S. Criminal and Civil Investigations
November 3rd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve U.S. criminal and civil investigations into whether the U.K. company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and other matters, its biggest legal settlement. Negotiations over the terms are ongoing and will be completed next year, the London-based company said in a statement today. The […]
And Now: The Rogue Websites Bill Introduced in U.S. House
October 27th, 2011The “Stop Online Piracy Act” would target foreign websites for take down. I wondered what this actually meant, from a technical perspective, so I gave the proposed legislation a very quick look. It turns out that the government wants to force U.S. Internet service providers to block access to the sites. There would be a […]
Fukushima’s Cesium-137 Fallout Double What Government Claims
October 26th, 2011Via: Slashdot: “A new study posted for open peer-review suggests that the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi released far more radiation than the Japanese government initially estimated. The study [PDF] uses global radioisotope and meteorological data to calculate the size of the release from the plant. Nature News reports that, contrary to official claims, the […]
