Snowden heeft meerdere namen van projecten genoemd voor het beïnvloeden van online polls, forums, reacties op nieuwsberichten.
Hier een heel oud voorbeeld uit de tijd van de eerste wereld oorlog.
In de VS had je toen het "Committee on Public Information," daar werkten 75.000 "vrijwilligers" die per week 22.000 berichten het land in hielpen om de inwoners van de VS te overtuigen dat het land zich moest mengen in de oorlog. Het getal lag mede zo hoog omdat er veel lokale media was en ook mondeling werden de boodschappen bezorgd overal in het land. Vandaag de dag zou je met minder berichten toe kunnen aangezien het bereik van de boodschap groter is. Ik meen me te herinneren dat vandaag de dag er 45.000 public relations medewerkers onder het Pentagon vallen. En een tijd geleden werd gezegd dat de CIA 5 miljard per jaar uitgaf aan het omkomen van sleutelfiguren in de media. Zal nu wel hoger zijn maar das voornamelijk het gevolg van inflatie.
over het Committee on Public Information:
"The committee used newsprint, posters, radio, telegraph, cable and movies to broadcast its message. It recruited about 75,000 "Four Minute Men," volunteers who spoke about the war at social events for an ideal length of four minutes, considering that the average human attention span was judged at the time to be four minutes. They covered the draft, rationing, war bond drives, victory gardens and why America was fighting. It was estimated that by the end of the war, they had made more than 7.5 million speeches to 314 million people in 5,200 communities.[8] They were advised to keep their message positive, always use their own words and avoid "hymns of hate."[9] For ten days in May 1917, the Four Minute Men were expected to promote "Universal Service by Selective Draft" in advance of national draft registration on June 5, 1917.[10]
The CPI staged events designed for specific ethnic groups. For instance, Irish-American tenor John McCormack sang at Mount Vernon before an audience representing Irish-American organizations.[11] The Committee also targeted the American worker and, endorsed by Samuel Gompers, filled factories and offices with posters designed to promote the critical role of American labor in the success of the war effort.[12]
The CPI's activities were so thorough that historians later stated, using the example of a typical midwestern American farm family, that[13]
Every item of war news they saw—in the country weekly, in magazines, or in the city daily picked up occasionally in the general store—was not merely officially approved information but precisely the same kind that millions of their fellow citizens were getting at the same moment. Every war story had been censored somewhere along the line— at the source, in transit, or in the newspaper offices in accordance with ‘voluntary’ rules established by the CPI."
bron:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...tee_on_Public_Information