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Feds Creating Database to Track ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter
freebeacon.com ^ | August 25, 2014 3:30 pm | Elizabeth Harrington

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!”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
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To: BenLurkin
Don't worry. They track us too and ever since the analog age almost.

This June, 2001 article says "The group [FR] has also expressed a level of vitriol toward Democrats, particularly the Clintons (including occasional death threats), that has normally reasonable voices on the left wishing they could shut the group up. Legal scholar Cass Sunstein uses the Free Republic as an example [in] his new book, 'Republic.com'."

(Sunstein was appointed to a key position in his dear friend Obama's administration.)

Here's how President Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

He recently left the Administration.

They already know about us.

41 posted on 08/25/2014 8:45:54 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Yes, the Patriot trials will have FReeper comments in front of kangaroo treason courts. Cass and Soros want 90% of us dead! they hate the idea of dissent.


42 posted on 08/25/2014 10:10:50 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: BenLurkin
God I hope this is satire.

Please, God, let this be satire.

43 posted on 08/25/2014 11:16:20 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: BenLurkin

racist....... start with ERIC HOLDER AND OBAMA.......


44 posted on 08/26/2014 5:54:55 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: BenLurkin
“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.”

Your tax dollars at work.

45 posted on 08/26/2014 6:55:08 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: G Larry

All of this is colored by the fact that Hate Speech is practiced by minorities more than anyone.


46 posted on 08/26/2014 6:59:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: BenLurkin

I bet leftist hate speech is fine with them though


47 posted on 08/26/2014 7:06:59 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise; PJ-Comix

In other taxpayers will be funding the leftist version of Twitchy??


48 posted on 08/26/2014 7:07:49 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Socialist networking sites are gonna to be socialist...


49 posted on 08/26/2014 7:09:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I wonder how many other leftist websites are funded by taxpayers?


50 posted on 08/26/2014 7:14:26 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

That would seem to be the way to counter it. Overwhelm the system by reporting EVERYTHING.

Anyone remember, after Newtown, that online system that allowed people to report on neighbors who were known firearms owners? Iirc it quietly died when the guy’s who built it discovered THEY were being flagged for having proverbial “small arsenals” stashed away.


51 posted on 08/26/2014 7:15:08 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Zeppo

Land of the “Free”........


52 posted on 08/26/2014 7:23:49 AM PDT by sandboxshooter (Iraq, Afghanistan, War)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights; GeronL

Use the truthy button to get all of Obama’s lies tracked.

“JV”
“Not a smidgen of corruption”
“you can keep your health care. period.”


53 posted on 08/26/2014 7:25:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: GeronL

Anything currently funded by this government is leftist. As it was under Clinton.

The post office, the whitehouse.gov website’s history of all presidents, everything.

Liberal mantra is to politicize everything.

Even our “US propaganda” broadcasts to other nations are now anti-American.

Some fumigating is needed when the next administration comes in. Too many turncoats in the State Department, Obama’s new purged military, et al.


54 posted on 08/26/2014 7:28:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

There are plenty of articles with “opposing viewpoints” cited on FR. They are quickly torn apart.

They want to politically “re-educate” FReepers and barring that, use the Weather Underground’s violent purge of the “25 million holdouts”.


55 posted on 08/26/2014 7:30:56 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: sagar

What, shaping “truth”?


56 posted on 08/26/2014 8:28:18 AM PDT by Lexinom
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             FUNSA


just checking

57 posted on 08/26/2014 8:48:46 AM PDT by tomkat
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58 posted on 08/26/2014 8:50:52 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: BenLurkin

59 posted on 08/26/2014 9:29:37 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: BenLurkin

my prediction is (if they aren’t already) thye government will check email, online posts, twitter etc. for hate speech (examples of which are Obama is a muslim, non citizen, trayvon was a criminal, mike brown was a crminal etc)

Then they will go to your employer and tell them they need to fire you.

I’ve been predicting this for the last two years, sadly I think its almost here.


60 posted on 08/26/2014 9:38:13 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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