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The researchers, from NATO\u2019s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, targeted troops participating in an exercise in an allied country to not only see how much data they could detect, but also to see \u201cif we would be able to induce certain behaviors such as leaving their positions, not fulfilling duties, etc., using a range of influence activities based on the acquired data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were able to do just that, however NATO did not specify what \u201cundesirable behavior&#8221; they were able to generate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO did find that Twitter was not very useful for infiltrating troops. But the researchers were able to mine significant amounts of information from Facebook and Instagram. 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