“Online Persona Management Services” to Allow CIA, etc., to Control Social Media Conversations

“Online Persona Management Services” to Allow CIA, etc.,  to Control Social Media Conversations
CENTCOM responded to the news with its typical openness and candor: “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable CENTCOM to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US,” said spokesman Bill Speaks (how’s that for a sock puppet name, huh?) But of course the internet is international in nature. The contract calls for the sock puppet controllers to employ something called “traffic mixing,” which intends to blend the online presence of the false persona with that of people outside of the operation, in a way that will provide, “...excellent cover and deniability.”