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in 2013, Reddit community managers cheerfully announced that Eglin Air Force Base, home to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)'s Psychological Operations team, was the "most Reddit addicted city" https://web.archive.org/web/20150113041912/http://www.reddit...

all debates on social media have already been astroturfed to hell and back by professional posters for many years, but LLMs are certainly going to function as a force multiplier



Reminds me, I haven't seen a video of a dog greeting a returning soldier in ages. I was convinced that it was neverending.


> Eglin Air Force Base, home to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)'s Psychological Operations team

Which unit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglin_Air_Force_Base

Garrison for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Special_Forces_Group_(Unit...

Which is Army and part of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Special_Forces_Command_(Ai...

Whose psychological operations unit is based out of North Carolina. Doesn't track with Eglin.

I wonder if that's a fluke or exit node for a large number of Unclass networks that a lot of bored LCpl Schmuckatellis are using.


All of the top 3 cities are places with a low official population and a large working population - Eglin's official pop is 2.8k, but has 80k workers. It's the "most Reddit addicted" city because of an obvious statistical artifact.


yeah most "working cities" host air force munitions directorates actively engaged in researching psychological warfare on social networks too

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

if you want some entertaining reading go ahead and browse through Eduardo Pasiliao's research at your working city there:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Caw-nkAAAAAJ&hl=en

I'll summarize it for you: computational propaganda with an emphasis on discerning and disrupting social network structure.




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