Motherboard has published two reports on how governments are increasingly viewing social media as "a new front in warfare" and tool for the military. A global conference in London with senior military and intelligence personnel reveals social media can be an intelligence source on civilian populations and enemies and a channel for propaganda to influence public opinion. A separate Motherboard article reports on how spies use social media — Tinder, for example — to infiltrate activist groups. Though infiltrating activist groups is nothing new, the crop of personal information found on social media can be used to manipulate and socially engineer intelligence targets. 
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