U.S. Navy/MC1 Samuel Souvannason
Wired: NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
The phony Facebook pages looked just like the real thing. They were designed to mimic pages that service members use to connect. One appeared to be geared toward a large-scale, military exercise in Europe and was populated by a handful of accounts that appeared to be real service members.
In reality, both the pages and the accounts were created and operated by researchers at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, a research group that's affiliated with NATO. They were acting as a "red team" on behalf of the military to test just how much they could influence soldiers’ real-world actions through social media manipulation.
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Update: With just $60 and internet access, researchers found and tracked NATO troops and even tricked them into disobeying orders (Business Insider)
WNU Editor: Even though we are told numerous times to not trust social media, people end up trusting social media. In a war-zone .... this will be deadly as this NATO team uncovered.
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