The Militarization of Social Networking

data mining for saddam.

Yikes! The Internet returns to its military origins, or, watch out who you befriend on Facebook: a new, five-part series at Slate, Chris Wilson’s “Searching for Saddam”, on “how the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi dictator.”

Graduate students from University of New Orleans public history department tour the Louisiana National Guard Museum April 11. A stack of playing cards displaying Iraq War’s “most wanted” rests on a shelf in the museum’s archive department. Photo: US Army/Sgt. Karen Sampson/Released.

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