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Posted on 08/25/2014 6:10:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.
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“This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda [?], and assist in the preservation of open debate,” the grant said.
... “Truthy” claims to be non-partisan. However, the project’s lead investigator Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority.
... The government-funded researchers hope that the public will use their tool in the future to report on other Twitter users.
“Truthy uses a sophisticated combination of text and data mining, social network analysis, and complex networks models,” the website adds. “To train our algorithms, we leverage crowdsourcing: we rely on users like you to flag injections of forged grass-roots activity. Therefore, click on the Truthy button when you see a suspicious meme!”
Typical commie tactics.
What happens if everyone clicks the truthy button, hate speech or not?
#obamasucks #tyranny #suckonthisfeds #paranoia #obamalies
And that will just be the start. Will they develop a system o detect when the government is violating first amendment rights too?.../s
ping!
Wow, a real-life Ministry of Truth?
Is this for real, or is it satire?
Nowadays it’s nearly impossible to tell the difference...
1984.
“detect hate speech and subversive propaganda [?], and assist in the preservation of open debate”
So, we have to crush unpopular speech in order to protect unpopular speech?
That anyone could write or say that entire line without a hint of irony is truly frightening.
rem:// *.cheese*
Its probably my fault.
I don’t impose a lot of limits on myself when speaking to Obama, Pelosi, Reid and a few others on twitter.
Just the other day,in commenting on the Gentle Giant's death,the Governor Massachusetts,Deval "Coupe Deval" Patrick,said that he was sick and tired of unarmed black youth being gunned down by police.Well *I* am sick and tired of black savages like Saint Trayvon and the Gentle Giant robbing,assaulting and murdering.
*That* should get me into their database...assuming I wasn't already there.
Maybe THIS will wake the dumbed down masses up to this regime’s communist ways. Nah.
“Hatespeech” = Anything that doesn’t endorse homosexuality*.
*Technically covers all same sex attraction.
...which conservatives have kickstarted: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/25/conservatives-kick-start-governments-1-million-truthy-misinformation-database/
The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”
What’s a “twitter?”
Unnecessarily watering their lawn? Turn them in to the Water Cops.
Spreading roadster/splittist rumors against The Rulers? Hit the truthy button.
Contact your neighborhood Zampolit for further guidance against Enemies of The State.
I hate communists and their toady totalitarian terrorists. Track this!
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