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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Persona management (sock puppet) software -- one person using multiple identities to post numerous denier comments on websites and blogs that tell the truth about climate change

Persona management (sock puppet) software -- one person using multiple identities to post numerous denier comments on websites and blogs that tell the truth about climate change


UPDATE:  COMMENT:



Hank Roberts said...

One of those two socks quoted has a profile that links to "js-kit" which links to "Echo" -- a software toolkit for scanning social media and automating actions in response to what's detected.

I suggested a slogan for them:

"Socks to be you."



With millions of dollars pouring into faux "think" tanks in order to spread lies about the climate science and researchers, we now have proof that comments are being posted by fake personas.


A good example are these recent duplicate comments, posted today, one minute apart, by two separate identities on Michael Tobis' blog, "Only in it for the gold." http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2011/02/montana-to-repeal-global-warming.html


Actually, there is no way to prove that these comments were posted by a software program, but such programs do exist.


Please see this article on Daily Kos describing the use of such software:  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

Duplicate comments, today, on Michael Tobis' blog:

7 comments:


byron smith said...
Great writing. I particularly liked the final twist: After all, isn't repealing physical phenomena a federal matter?
Oale said...
Well that does it! Proposing Montana to be expelled from UN secular counsil, since they have unerthly laws straight down the line!
dhogaza said...
So I guess we need to amend the old saying about Montana ... "Montana, where men are men, and sheep worry ... and science does not apply".
Oale said...
Proposing sanctions against Montana: 1) Henceforth, only measurement devices allowed to be exported to Montana should use Aramaic numbers or literal definition of these, these should be produced under divine inspiration not to distress the regular Montanans. 2) As "God does not throw a dice", all references to natural numbers present in dice (1,2,3,4,5,6) shall be overstriked in books due Montana, and henceforth these shall be replaced with the names of Jacobs' sons, of which there were simenonlevi, but as the actual number of these is larger than the 'satanic diceal' numbers, some interpretative freedom will be maintained by local Montanan group leaders.
Francoise said...
So if you warmists are right that the world continues to have warmer temperatures, somehow Montana is worse Off? Last time I checked, longer growing seasons and not so cold winters would be a benefit to a state located near the Canadian border. Of course, if you are wrong and what we have seen so far is just mostly natural variation in temperature, then this is all a tempest in a teapot, and you will find other ways to seek federal grant dollars to pay your salaries.
cagw_skeptic99 said...
So if you warmists are right that the world continues to have warmer temperatures, somehow Montana is worse Off? Last time I checked, longer growing seasons and not so cold winters would be a benefit to a state located near the Canadian border. Of course, if you are wrong and what we have seen so far is just mostly natural variation in temperature, then this is all a tempest in a teapot, and you will find other ways to seek federal grant dollars to pay your salaries.
Michael Tobis said...
Now THERE is a coincidence.

1 comment:

Hank Roberts said...

One of those two socks quoted has a profile that links to "js-kit" which links to "Echo" -- a software toolkit for scanning social media and automating actions in response to what's detected.

I suggested a slogan for them:

"Socks to be you."