Posted on 08/26/2014 9:40:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.
The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.
The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”
The university has received $919,917 so far for the project.
“The project stands to benefit both the research community and the public significantly,” the grant states. “Our data will be made available via [application programming interfaces] APIs and include information on meme propagation networks, statistical data, and relevant user and content features.”
“The open-source platform we develop will be made publicly available and will be extensible to ever more research areas as a greater preponderance of human activities are replicated online,” it continues. “Additionally, we will create a web service open to the public for monitoring trends, bursts, and suspicious memes.”
“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.
"False and misleading ideas"? "Subversive propaganda"? Who's going to define those terms? What's "misleading"? What's "subversive"? Subversive to who? Or what?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Open source, in this case, means it’s subject to interpretation. This is NOT something in which the government should be invested in any way, shape or form. This is really bad juju.
Talk about a direct violation of First Amendment rights of free speech....
KGB
LOL! I got a feeling, like the hair on the back of your neck kinda feeling, that they have our number and have for a while.
The Famous Amateur Golfer already has his little brownshirted minions tracking us.
Social pollution? Is that like liberal garbage? Who determines what is true?
Even Nixon wouldn’t pull this stunt on FR this Presidnet would
If they want to find misinformation, they can just go to the next interview of one of the politicians or his chef d’affaires.
This is the government the Founders warned us about.
I am sure that FR and all of its denizens are already thoroughly tracked and entered into The Database and many subsets of that database. I have suspected for years that if I don’t die of a heart attack or something else in a few years, I will die at the hands of my government as will a great many of us.
The Democrats have been running amok for six years with the GOpee and House Oversight committee tut-tutting, harrumphing or doing nothing. And I include my own House rep.
We must protect Jim Thompson!!
Sounds like the taxpayers are funding the lefty version of TWITCHY.
Total brain control! Time to crush liberalism!
A million bucks? To Indianna University?
Ehh.
Its just run of the mill taxpayer money handed over to libtard institutions to waste on frivolous crap.
Happens every day.
Nothing to worry about.
(I hope)
The Famous Amateur Golfer already has his little brownshirted minions tracking us.
I don’t doubt that. I am not sure this nation can stand two more years of that thug in office.
If you’re not saying anything wrong as defined by the ministry of truth, you don’t have anything to worry about.
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