MK-ULTRA was an illegal mind-control research program that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operated between 1953 and 1964.
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MKUltra was shutdown long ago, but several fragmented research continued and still lives on. MKNAOMI, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH were immediate successors. Later, ruwre was StarGate. And many many more undisclosed human experimentation.
Intelligence community behavioural science seems to be one such project, where they teach interrogating resistance, psychological profiling of adversaries, influence and propaganda analysis (not direct brain control).
While modern variants don’t have any official names or are even disclosed, its safe to assume they still are conducting human experimentation. Just much better and much less fan fare.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I feel like most of the internet is being used as a psy-op on the populace.
catbum@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Yep, I thoroughly agree.
Case in point: I have a throwaway Fb and apparently my clicks have beckoned the algo to push AI-written ragebait stories and intentionally dirty looking pics of what I’m sure are fake trans people.
Thing is, they’re intermixed with seemingly genuine trans person posts (over time). But the tells are there.
Almost every fake one is a “digital creator” with links off site. No doubt they’re fueled by foreign or domestic bot farms of some kind.
As to audience effectiveness, these posts simultaneously breed gentle support from our more accepting brethren but are just “icky and insane” enough to further piss off maga. It’s super effective in promoting engagement and creating the illusion of “trans are everywhere” with over-saturation.
I know I fed the algo in this case, but manufactured bullshit is everywhere. Just wish there were effective strategies to combat it.