Re: <nettime> Adam Entous: How Israel Limited Online Deception During Its Election (The New Yorker)

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

It seems that we are collectively failing to perform 'Turing test' on 
virtual entities. The difficulty of distinguishing between actual and 
virtual humans is a testament to fundamental inadequacy of so-called 
'social' networks. Or maybe it's a feature, pigeonholing humans into 
restrictive templates that can be easily mimicked by virtual constructs.

A more interesting question is ... WTF is 'fake persona'? How can 
electronic representation be a fake persona? As opposed to what? With 
'fake news' meaning 'unauthorized propaganda', do 'fake personas' mean 
'unauthorized influencers'?


> The use of fake online personas has a long history in Israel. In the
> mid-two-thousands, an Israeli company called Terrogence used them to
> infiltrate suspected jihadi chat rooms. Later, Terrogence experimented

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