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April 11th, 2016 
Awake Goy The investigation comes days after jailed hacker Andres Sepulveda claimed he had used black propaganda and other tactics in order to influence many electoral contests across Latin America over a run of eight years for 2005 until 2013. Sepulveda told Bloomberg News that he hacked emails, phones and websites in order to gather intelligence in order to give his right wing clients an illicit advantage in nine Latin American countries.
Sepulveda ran a team of hackers that stole campaign strategies, installed spyware in opposition offices, manipulated sentiment by fabricating false waves of enthusiasm and derision on social media, and launched spam and robo-calling campaigns designed to annoy potential supporters of his political clients.
The Costa Rican Supreme Court of Elections authorised an investigation into the country’s presidential contest of 2014 following a complaint by the leftist Broad Front group prompted by Sepulveda’s revelations, teleSUR reports.
Sepulveda admitted running underhanded campaigns in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Nicaragua while maintaining he stuck to a “more normal” campaign in Costa Rica.
Leftists politicians in Costa Rica want investigators to look into “irregularities in the electoral process” as well as whether executives from the right-wing National Liberation Party hired Sepulveda (by his own account a high-tech, internet-savvy G Gordon Liddy1) in order to rig the election.
One of Sepulveda’s favoured tactics was the use of banks of sock puppet social media accounts to promote tweets and memes ridiculing left-wing candidates. Anti Broad Front memes were reportedly abundant during the 2014 elections. Some of the memes sought to portray the Broad Front as sympathetic to Columbia’s notorious FARC guerrillas. The social media posts alleged that the left-wing candidates had ties to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia and denied FRAC’s classification as terrorists. Supposed plans to nationalise industries were also highlighted.
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