The American military intends to employ elaborate fabrications and seize equipment for propaganda.

(RT) ⸻ The Pentagon is asking for help in taking its brainwashing operations to the next level by creating cutting edge "deep fake" videos, spying on people using household appliances, and making massive data dragnets. US Special Operations Command (US SOCOM) has issued proposal requests for a whole host of dodgy services, including "next generation capability to 'takeover' Internet of Things (IoT) devices in order to collect data and information from local populaces to enable a breakdown of what messaging might be popular and accepted through sifting of data once received." For what purpose? "This would enable MISO [Military Information Support Operations] to craft and promote messages that may be more readily received by the local populace in relevant peer/near peer environments," according to the document. Despite publicly obsessing over others' foreign interference and propaganda, Washington is now openly admitting that it is actively seeking these new technologies for its own "influence operations, digital deception, communication disruption, and disinformation campaigns at the tactical edge and operational levels." Earlier this year, a Washington-based advisory firm OODA published a report warning that Chinese-made household items could not only be spying on you, but basically fronting for the Chinese government. The story was hysterically splashed across British media. Washington wants to get in on the action by obtaining the best possible front row seat as you stand in front of your refrigerator at midnight, chugging chocolate milk straight from the carton. The Pentagon wants to create "deep fake" videos that can realistically portray fake events as real, in an attempt to manipulate the target viewer(s). They also want to collect disparate data through public and open source information streams such as social media, local media, etc. to enable MISO to craft and direct influence operations and messages in relevant peer/near peer environments. Recent evidence suggests that military-grade collection and subversion tools targeting online and conventional information platforms have largely been turned on the average citizen for the purpose of protecting the establishment and its various narratives from dissent. Elon Musk worked with a journalist to reveal the collusion between US government authorities and the social media platform to manipulate and censor public debate over the Covid-19 pandemic. According to internal Twitter documents, one of the first meetings that the Biden Administration requested with Twitter executives was on the topic of Covid vaccines and specific high-profile accounts that deviated from the official narrative. David Zweig, a journalist, cited examples of various experts, including prominent epidemiologists, whose views were censored as a result of being qualified by the Twitter staff as Covid "misinformation." Earlier this year, a British whistleblower revealed that critics of Covid-19-related lockdowns and vaccine mandates were monitored by the UK army's information warfare brigade. The Canadian military was also caught using propaganda techniques honed on the battlefield in Afghanistan to shape the Covid debate. The Pentagon's latest wish list raises concerns that these tools will also be deployed on average Americans or Westerners for purposes of control and manipulation. Last September, the Pentagon vowed to review its secret psyops, but only after public outrage when a group of researchers suggested collusion between US government entities and American online platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Western establishment cheerleaders are now demanding even more psychological manipulation efforts by the US government, if only to counter "disinformation" from foreign adversaries.