Many of us joked about it. People (mostly Chinese) gets paid 50 cents for making pro-China comments in the web. But do you know there are actually people in the US Military (US Centcom) who does the same for the US. Apparently in the height of the Iraq was, a program called Operation Earnest Voice was used as a psychological weapon against al-Qaida’s online presence.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/304929#ixzz1IVg7CYAl

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113308530388366.html#

Who knew?