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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by Lammy

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:25:26 GMT

> host of a lot of military cyber operations Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by Lammy

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:43:35 GMT

Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by shufflerofrocks

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:42:07 GMT

>Also, IGNORE anything on Twitter, Reddit, or HN (ironic ik). The lesswrong/credibledefense/zeihan types are all idiots ime. Using an "objective" tone doesn't make rubbish "objective" Not to mention these sites are FILLED to the brim with bots. Eg. In 2013, the most "reddit-addicted" area was Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, with largest amount of activity [0]. Eglin was one of the few places used in a study for testing social media manipulation by Pentagon [1] And not to mention the Russian/Chinese/Indian bots [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit... [1]…

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by Lammy

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:08:30 GMT

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by shrubble

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:55:32 GMT

https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1619567947349098496 "Daily reminder that Reddit accidentally outed Eglin AFB as the most “Reddit addicted” city. Eglin AFB has been a huge part of the Pentagon’s social media manipulation campaigns for over a decade now." URLs given at link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.reddit... https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by Lammy

Tue, 23 May 2023 03:54:15 GMT

> It became a dumpster fire well over a decade ago Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by jimmygrapes

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 02:14:02 GMT

I also remember reading several articles along the same lines mostly coming out of Eglin AFB. Due to the horrible state of search engines now I can't find the originals, but a saved paper I have in my bookmarks suggests similar: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf It would take more searching of archives than I have capacity for, but I can at least anecdotally confirm GP's claim.

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by Lammy

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:30:29 GMT

Here's a fun academic paper HNers may enjoy: "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity" in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory out of Eglin AFB in Florida: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …which (totally coincidentally) was Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by Lammy

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:23:09 GMT

> This was so easy that I know that if someone put a bit more effort into making the automation less obvious and also using enough real interaction you could do massive manipulation. There have been government studies on this as well, like "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity" in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory out of Eglin AFB in Florida: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf …which coincidentally was outed as Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by sudosysgen

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:37:54 GMT

How is it whataboutism? Twitter is posting about state info ops but don't mention any American ones. If you want evidence the US military is running info ops, here it is straight from the horse's mouth : http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf Beyond that Snowden gave up a few more details, see https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/16/britains-twi...

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by sudosysgen

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:35:46 GMT

They do. See the removed Reddit blog article about Eglin AFB being the most "Reddit addicted city" removed after commenters pointing out Eglin AFB had social media pilot programs https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit... http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf [PDF Warning]

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by doctorless

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:55:05 GMT

I actually gave a talk about automating influence on social media with what effectively amounted to chatbots, as a part of the 2016 election. Many of these factors were used, but also a few other interesting elements this article didn’t mention: 1. Geographic locales have linguistic norms that silently help in-group association. Adjusting rhetoric to these terms make people more pliable. 2. Context-aware sentiment is more impactful than general sentiment analysis. Someone may not have been a Trump supporter, but they didn’t like Hillary. This became another fulcrum. 3. Social leaders had the…

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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity — mentioned by eternalban

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 05:08:37 GMT

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644v1.pdf "China". To think I used to actually pay for your paper in my errant youth! :)

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