As reported in this morning’s Daily News Roundup, Glenn Greenwald’s latest piece for The Intercept takes a look at how western intelligence agencies “are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.” The report covers two tactics of UK spy agency GCHQ’s secret unit: “(1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.”

The following is a sample of the wide spectrum of reactions to the Greenwald piece from journalists and other commentators on Twitter.

 

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/NCWeaver/status/438129516901175296

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/438122709357035520

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/438108172671520768

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/438103891323154432