https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ He's got a story on the NSA and GCHQ using the internet to destroy people's and ideologies' reputations. You should read both articles.
"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking “Five Eyes” alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”By publishing these stories one by one, our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse “hacktivists” of using, the use of “honey traps” (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses. But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself..."
And interestingly as well, the reddit mods kept burying it as it came up. One of them apparently admitted to putting/bumping fake anti-Semitic stuff on a conspiracy subreddit to discredit it http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/11344026358/reddit-mods-bury-glenn-greenwalds-story-gchqnsa-use-internet-to-destroy-reputations.shtml
"...Mike's coverage of leaks showing the NSA and GCHQ using the internet to "manipulate, deceive and destroy reputations" (as reported by Glenn Greenwald at firstlook.org) hit the front page of Reddit yesterday, generating lots of traffic for Techdirt. This traffic truly should have gone to firstlook.org, but never made it there. A look at the top comments on our coverage show why: Why is this story being removed from all the popular subs over and over by mods? Message the admins about the censorship of this article by /r/news and /r/worldnews mods. They have never seemed to care about this in the past but if enough users message them it will hopefully at least provoke a response of some kind. Something needs to be done about this or this site needs to be abandoned as a platform for legitimate political discourse. Important Update: So, it turns out that the /r/news mod /u/BipolarBear0 who has been deleting all the instances of this story has previously been caught running a voting brigade to get anti-Semitic content upvoted on /r/conspiracy to discredit the sub. A fact which he admitted to me in another thread just a few minutes ago (he claims he was doing an "experiment"...) . This guy needs to be banned from the site.A little further down in the thread..."
Greenwald has literally had a constant stream of quality news reporting since he broke the Snowden story. It's no secret on this board that I'm huge fan of Greenwald's work. He is one of the few that deserves the honor of being called a news journalist. Those that don't like him often walk in stride with one the two major political parties. I stopped posting his stuff long ago in deference to the never ending gun control gibberish. Thanks for linking this, I hadn't seen it.
I admit to not fully grasping the connection, so what would be the motive for reddit doing as claimed? Just trying to understand. Or, is it that the movement of stories is consistent with Greenwald's piece?
