Federal government routinely hires internet trolls, shills to monitor chat  rooms, disrupt article comment sections

NaturalNews) You’ve probably run into them before — those seemingly random  antagonizers who always end up diverting the conversation in an online chat room  or article comment section away from the issue at hand, and towards a much  different agenda. Hot-button issues like illegal immigration, the two-party  political system, the “war on terror” and even alternative medicine are among  the most common targets of such attackers, known as internet “trolls” or  “shills,” who in many cases are nothing more than paid lackeys hired by the  federal government and other international organizations to sway and ultimately  control public opinion.

Several years ago, Canada’s CTV News aired  a short segment about how its own government had been exposed for hiring secret  agents to monitor social media and track online conversations, as well as the  activities of certain dissenting individuals. This report, which in obvious  whitewashing language referred to such activities as the government simply  “weighing in and correcting” allegedly false information posted online,  basically admitted that the Canadian government had assumed the role of secret  online police. At the time, this was a great unknown to the general Canadian  public.
You can view this CTV News segment here:
http://youtube.com

Of course, the same type of online  patrolling by the government is also happening in the U.S., particularly from  the CIA and its infamous In-Q-Tel program. At a 2012 summit, former CIA director  David Petraeus essentially admitted that the CIA has a covert online presence  that it uses not only for data mining purposes but also to infiltrate online  conversations for the purpose of protecting “national security” interests. Such  interests, it turns out, include disrupting conversations that discuss topics  like 9/11 truth, for instance, or U.S. involvement in giving weapons to Syrian  rebels.

According to Occupy Corporatism, the U.S. National  Security Agency (NSA), which was recently exposed by American hero and  whistleblower Edward Snowden for its illegal surveillance programs, has devised  a training program that literally scouts out hackers from American colleges and  universities and recruits them to work for the government.  Among the many duties sought from those enrolled in the National Centers of  Academic Excellence in the Cyber Operations Program are “collection,  exploitation, and response” activities to take place in the online  environment.

“These ‘cyber operators’ are trained to become an elite team  of ‘computer geniuses’ that are experts in computer hacking, digital  communications, cyber intelligence — for the purpose of spying on Americans, as  well as conducting interactive digital psy-ops with users of the internet,”  explains Occupy Corporatism about the program.

You can view the  actual NSA announcement admitting this here:
http://www.nsa.gov

Alleged former ‘shill’ admits that trolling operations are real

Then  there is the occasional confession by a former employee of the government who  fesses up about what is really taking place in secret behind the scenes. A  recent public posting on a “conspiracy theory” forum — conspiracy websites are  typically the most heavily targeted by government officials — admits that  individuals are constantly being recruited and hired by shadowy groups and  government-affiliated agencies to manipulate online discussions.
“Shills  exist,” writes this anonymous ex-shill following a lengthy explanation of how he  was hand-selected to pose as a normal commenter and basically lie on forums and  in comment sections. “They are real. They walk among you … You should be aware  of this,” he adds.
It should be noted that the alternative news website  where this confession was recently re-posted was asked by the conspiracy website  where it was originally posted to take it down, claiming that it is “libelous  and utterly false,” even though it does not name any specific names or identify  who is behind these and other shill operations. When asked for an explanation,  the conspiracy website in question simply stopped responding.
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