”The Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a unit in one of Britain’s intelligence agencies, is tasked with creating sockpuppet accounts and fake content on social media, in order to use ”dirty tricks” to ”destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt” enemies by ”discrediting” them. In this talk, we reveal some of that content, in relation to infiltrating activists groups around the world, including during the Arab spring and Iranian revolution.”
Source: Media.ccc.de (includes downloads)
We’ve got our own military industrial complex-trolls in Sweden. Not long ago a Swedish Major was exposed as such an internet-troll with the same agenda, making us swedes scared of ”the evil russians” through his blog. It is called psyop. ”psychological operations”.
A Swedish group for peace exposed him:
http://ofog.org/nyheter/oppet-brev-till-carl-bergqvist