- I don't need no damned strategy
I've got Valerie Jarrett to lead you from my ass!
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!”
#IHateTwitter&Don’tHaveIt
Twitter has been a hell of an investment. Just got out recently.
But Twitter is also an evil cancer on society.
I don’t twitter. But I’m sure my facebook gives them plenty to read. I hope I am one of the biggest Obama bashers here. My wife tells me I shouldn’t be posting certain things. I tell her I’m not worried about the government. I have faith that there are enough true Americans that still believe in the Constitution.
AS to what you post being twisted and used against you, it has already happened. Principal of Iowa’s Marshalltown High School Aiddy Phomvisay declared that for Spirit Day different grades would wear different colors. For juniors it was white. A star athlete dressed in white and posted it on Facebook. Aiddy suspended him for being a racist. Then he branded the student’s parents as racists for daring to object to the suspension.
I've got Valerie Jarrett to lead you from my ass!
That’s a misleading headline.
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