Government Trolls Are Using "Psychology-Based Influence Techniques" On YouTube, Facebook

https://www.gunsgrubandgold.com/archive/index.php?t-5089.html

Tuatha De Danann

07-02-2015, 06:36 PM

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog (http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/government-trolls-are-using-psychology-based-influence-techniques-on-youtube-facebook-and-twitter),
Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls are using psychology-based influence techniques; on social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

The 15 Weirdest Wikipedia Pages Edited From Congressional IP

http://mentalfloss.com/article/58040/15-weirdest-wikipedia-pages-edited-congressional-ip-addresses

U.S. Govt. Editing Wikipedia to Smear Independent Media Personalities?

http://www.infowars.com/u-s-govt-editing-wikipedia-to-smear-independent-media-personalities/http://www.infowars.com/u-s-govt-editing-wikipedia-to-smear-independent-media-personalities/

Someone Using A US Senate IP Address Edits Wiki Entry To Change Ed Snowden From 'Dissident' To 'Traitor'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/06584924064/someone-using-us-senate-ip-address-edits-wiki-entry-to-change-ed-snowden-dissident-to-traitor.shtml

Knowledge is power: why is the Russian government editing Wikipedia?

6 August 2014

http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits

After edits to Wikipedia articles related to the conflict in Ukraine have been traced to the Russian government, Olga Zeveleva unpicks this latest twist in Russia's information wars

On the moral bankruptcy of Wikipedia’s anonymous administration

  http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/09/02/on-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-wikipedias-anonymous-administration/

Мy Larry Sanger (see also Wikipedia’s forgotten creator )

I announced, named, and launched Wikipedia way back in January of 2001. My originating role in the project was acknowledged by Jimmy Wales later on in 2001, when he wrote, “Larry had the idea to use wiki software…” Virtually all of the news articles about the project before 2005 identified me as one of the two founders of the project, as did the project’s first three press releases, all of them approved by Jimmy, of course. I managed it as “instigator” and “chief organizer” for the project’s seminal first 14 months. To give you an idea of what role I had in the project, Jimmy declared, a few weeks before I left the project, that I was “the final arbiter of all Wikipedia functionality.”

Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words)

http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/

11.2.2011
The New York Times piece on Wikipedia’s gender gap has given rise to dozens of great online conversations about why so few women edit Wikipedia. I’ve been reading ALL of it, because I believe we need to understand the origins of our gender gap before we can solve it. And the people talking –on science sites and in online communities and on historian’s blogs— are exactly the ones we should be listening to, because they’re all basically one degree of separation from us already, just by virtue of caring enough to talk about the problem.