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The federal government is spending close to $1 million of your money on an online tracking program that will supposedly search for so-called “hate speech” or “misinformation” on Twitter. On Fox and Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. brought us more details on the “Truthy” database, which intends to monitor suspicious Internet memes as well as false or misleading ideas spreading around social media. […] The Indiana professor who is leading the project, Filippo Menczer, had previously identified a list of hashtags that he believed fell under the categories of “far right” and “polarizing.” Among those that he...

Hi. Pardon me for barging in, but I just had to register to this site to share something I've just spent the last thirty or so minutes composing. See, if you had to pin my political leanings down, you could accurately consider me good friends with Libertarianism (c.f. my username), but I'm actually quite independent. Though my idealism is rooted in the traditionally conservative theories involving one's independent ability to direct their own destiny. I confess that I was temporarily led to believe that Democratic politicans and their supporters were and could be rational-minded individuals. I have since realized the...