NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy

guest · Feb 18, 2019

NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
February 18, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/nato-stratcom-catfished-soldiers-social-media/

The phony Facebook pages looked just like the real thing. They were designed to mimic pages that service members use to connect.

In reality, both the pages and the accounts were created and operated by researchers at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence [...] to test just how much they could influence soldiers’ real-world actions through social media manipulation.
The total cost of the scheme? Sixty dollars, suggesting a frighteningly low bar for any malicious actor looking to manipulate people online.

StratCom published its findings last week in a new report [...]
“We’re talking professional soldiers that are supposed to be very prepared,” says Janis Sarts, director of NATO StratCom. “If you compare that to an ordinary citizen … it would be so much easier.”
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