It's not just for internal corporate purposes, btw --- folks like NSA and GCHQ develop tools to modify social media environments, online polls, manipulate identities/content, and more all the time. Sad, but not surprising to see this happen: GCHQ has tools to manipulate online information, leaked documents show http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/14/gchq-tools-manipulate-online-... On a side note, some call it 'mind control' while the official terms include "perception management" and "shaping the information (or cognitive) environment." Used to be called "psychological operations" but a few years ago that got deemed too controversial and dropped by the US DOD in favor of "military information support operations." (MISO - like the soup. Yes, really.) I have some more thoughts on this, but am heading out the door for a quasi vacation shortly and don't have the time to throw 'em down. Maybe when I get back.... -- rick --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it. On Jul 15, 2014, at 2:45 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com> wrote:

How much there has been a "fusing" of cognition with the flow of digital information particularly for "digital natives" is a matter of considerable discussion. This below would appear to be a description of tools to facilitate the direct intervention and manipulation of that digital information flow-evidently paralleling Facebook in its <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/facebook-does-mind-control/> "mind control" initiatives.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways -british-spies-seek-control-internet/

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