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TROLL-QAEDA: The US's new way of fighting terror | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au
AFTER years of trying to win over hearts and minds in the field, the US State Department has a new tactic in the war on terror - trolling.
A Silicon Valley dot com veteran now working for the Government has launched a program called “Viral Peace” which aims to occupy online terror sites and shame, humiliate and annoy fundamentalists, Wired reports.
State Department senior technology adviser Shahed Amanullah told the magazine he wanted to use “logic, humour, satire, [and] religious arguments, not just to confront [extremists], but to undermine and demoralize them”.
AFTER years of trying to win over hearts and minds in the field, the US State Department has a new tactic in the war on terror - trolling.
A Silicon Valley dot com veteran now working for the Government has launched a program called “Viral Peace” which aims to occupy online terror sites and shame, humiliate and annoy fundamentalists, Wired reports.
State Department senior technology adviser Shahed Amanullah told the magazine he wanted to use “logic, humour, satire, [and] religious arguments, not just to confront [extremists], but to undermine and demoralize them”.
