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The Guardian: From Britain to Beijing: how governments manipulate the internet
British army creates team of Facebook warriors
Glenn Greenwald: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Glenn Greenwald: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
The Guardian: Internet Astroturfing
BBC News: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
BBC News: Pentagon plans propaganda war
Buzzfeed: Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America
WIRED: Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders
Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
The Guardian: Israel organizes volunteers to flood the net with Israeli propaganda
The Guardian: Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war
Israel To Pay Students For Pro-Israeli Social Media Propaganda
BBC News: China's Internet spin doctors
Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
HBGary: Automated social media management
NPR: Report: U.S. Creates Fake Online Identities To Counter 'Enemy Propaganda'
The Guardian: US spy operation to manipulate social media
The Guardian: The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent