JTRIG GCHQ: Uncovering British spies web of sockpuppet social media personas

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9233-uncovering_british_spies_web_of_sockpuppet_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YhFiZnHkE 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.