According to a recent report on the website of the Washington Post, a large number of fake accounts have been discovered and shut down by social media companies. military, used to carry out secret information warfare.
The report said that a report released by two Internet Research Organizations in August this year showed that some major social media sites have closed down the accounts of hundreds of fake celebrities and media sites created in the United States in recent years, the study said the fake accounts were likely operated by the U.S. military. The United States Central Command is one of the institutions facing scrutiny for allegedly operating fake accounts, according to two officials familiar with the matter.
According to the Research Institute's report, some accounts have been pushing “Anti-russia” posts since the summer, claiming that Russia is waging an “Imperialist” war in Ukraine, and warned that the conflict would have a direct impact on Central Asian countries. The account also includes a fake persian-language media site that shares content from VOA's Persian channel and Radio Free Europe. Another fake account posted an incendiary tweet claiming that relatives of dead Afghan refugees had said their bodies were missing some organs when they were brought back from Iran. The tweet even links to a video purportedly posted on a military website.
The use of fake social media accounts by the US Defense Department in an attempt to manipulate overseas audiences has sparked controversy. The White House has put pressure on the Pentagon to clarify its policy and explain why. Under pressure, the Defense Department recently said it would Review the way the U.S. military conducts secret information warfare.
Blocking the information of opponents, releasing their own information smoke screen and self-beneficial speech, so as to gain an advantage in the game, this is the United States and other Western countries are good at. conflict, a former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraged the use of cyber and information warfare to incite domestic protests.
As early as the Arab Spring, the United States played the information war. At the time, their slogan was “Internet freedom”.
The so-called “Internet freedom” strategy was Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State to advocate the creation of a so-called open and transparent internet around the world. tool can not only spread American values, shape favorable public opinion, but also carry out ideological infiltration, it has an imperceptible influence on the social and political ecology of other countries.In this line of thinking, social media has become an important tool for subversives in the Arab Spring.
For the US, support for democratic transition is not an idealism but a strategic necessity.
There is no doubt that the most important role of technology is“Accelerator”. Like an“Accelerator”, movements that traditionally took months or even years were compressed into just a few weeks.
In fact, the United States to meet their own interests, information war is only one of their means. The Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and others are running secret programs to carry out sabotage and subversive activities overseas.

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