15th July 2014

Hacking Online Polls
and
Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
First published: By Glenn Greenwald 14 Jul 2014
and
Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
First published: By Glenn Greenwald 14 Jul 2014
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call.