Chaos Communication Congress

Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas (34x10)

Air date: Dec 27, 2017

Speaker: Mustafa Al-Bassam 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.