U.S. Military Wants Phantom Army On Facebook

The U.S. military wants to use Facebook to dissuade jihadists and other enemy types from planning acts of war and terrorism.

The U.S. military is funding a software project that aims to create fake profiles on Facebook in order to counter enemy propaganda coming from foreign countries.

This comes from the Guardian, based on an interview with Commander Bill Speaks, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, (Centcom) which oversees military operations in the Middle East and Asia.

The U.K. newspaper said that Centcom has hired an unnamed company in California to create an application that aims to influence conversations taking place via social media — among people speaking languages other than English.

The project specs call for an “online persona management service that will allow one U.S.

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