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Feds Spend $1 Million To Track ‘Misinformation’ And Hate Speech On Twitter
Inquisitor ^ | Posted: August 26, 2014 | Tara Dodrill

Posted on 08/27/2014 7:43:47 AM PDT by Baynative

Via the Lars Larson Radio Show, yesterday:

The federal government spent $1 million to create a database to track hate speech and “misinformation” on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is behind the creation of the online government monitoring project. The database will reportedly include searches for “suspicious memes,” “false and misleading ideas” and will place particular focus on online political activity.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: internet; snooping; speech; twitter; yesterday
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To: Baynative

Their “false & misleading” is someone else’s idea of truth & there is only one source of truth. I doubt that source is this administration.


21 posted on 08/27/2014 8:28:44 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Baynative

I’ll save them a lot of time and money. It’s all misinformation.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 8:29:36 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Baynative

Obama’s Law: Anything you say will be held against you.


23 posted on 08/27/2014 8:37:53 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Baynative

Remember back when Jimmy Carter proposed a system to monitor telephone calls and automatically start recording it IF certain words were used.

http://www.libertyunderfire.org/2013/06/the-governments-secret-court-there-is-no-real-congressional-or-judicial-oversight/

“This secret court began during the Jimmy Carter Administration with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in 1978. Initiated by Ted Kennedy it had strong bipartisan support. It was created as a response to President Richard Nixon’s usage of federal resources to spy on political activist groups during his tenure as president, which likely violated the Fourth Amendment.

Ironically, the solution, legalized spying on our own citizens, was a greater violation of the Amendment than before. Few voices opposed giving the government extra spy power during the “Cold War” when it seemed that the whole planet was falling under the totalitarian influence of communism but, once legalized, the surveillance moved to other groups notably the socialists who opposed the Vietnamese War.”

NOW, Jimmy uses snail mail as he is afraid his e-mails will be monitored by the NSA. Oh the irony!


24 posted on 08/27/2014 8:38:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: proxy_user

It looks more and more like Republicans can balance future budgets by cutting waste and nonsense like this.


25 posted on 08/27/2014 9:02:01 AM PDT by pfony1 (Add just 6 GOP Senators and we "bury" Harry)
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To: Baynative

Many of the chilling prophecies of the future I read about in sci-fi novels when I was young have come to pass.

The one story I remember was how people had been herded into cramped apartments (Agenda 21, anyone?) and the amount of fresh air was regulated. You were not permitted more than 3 people’s worth of air in your apartment. If you tried to have a larger gathering, and needed to turn up the air volume, the authorities would be notified and come make inquiries to be sure you weren’t having an “unapproved political meeting.”

We aren’t far off from that, are we?


26 posted on 08/27/2014 9:06:20 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Baynative

The Internet sure has made the job of the Thought Police easier.


27 posted on 08/27/2014 9:23:01 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Baynative
"Obviously this will mean conservative hate speech..."

It won't even need to be hate speech, it will just be conservative speech, period, which libs regard as hate speech. "Impeach Bush!" = patriotism. "Impeach Obama" = racism, treason. We all know that's how they think, and those are the kind of people who will be running this program. The fact that they gave it a Colbert-inspired name is a huge tell, not to mention their reference to "astroturfing," which has been a big liberal meme for several years.
28 posted on 08/27/2014 9:48:46 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Baynative; GeronL; Nachum

A million dollars is chicken scratch to this administration. How much are they really spending and are they using the same staff who ran Obama’s old “Fight the Smears” webpage?


29 posted on 08/27/2014 10:16:12 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: Baynative

Morris Dees and the SPLCC is gonna be bent that the feds are cutting into their action!


30 posted on 08/27/2014 10:23:46 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Baynative

Americans - in the traditional understanding of that demonym - don’t cower.


31 posted on 08/27/2014 10:59:12 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Darksheare

That was memorialized in a YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-P00H6P2E


32 posted on 08/27/2014 11:58:43 AM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Baynative
Time for a flashback

Attack Watch

33 posted on 08/27/2014 12:15:31 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: Baynative
$1 million? That's not tracking, that's a payoff to a political supporter.
Since when has the Gov ever achieved anything effective with just a measly
$1 million dollars?

Heck, $1 million is the cost of one trial in federal court. Or a few Obama toilets.

34 posted on 08/27/2014 12:35:53 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: lavaroise
Misinformation was a word invented by the KGB long ago but only recently discovered out West.

"I tried to tell you, 20 years ago."


35 posted on 08/27/2014 2:26:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Baynative

That’s our knee jerk reaction, but the real danger of these laws is the Unintended consequences: they will eventually be applied EVERYWHERE so that the very concept of “hate” and speech is obliterated. And without hate, there is no love.


36 posted on 08/28/2014 7:27:45 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: LS

Oh, they’ll be hate, but the government will tell you who you should hate....bet it George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson.

Next week they’ll come up with some other “Emmanuel Goldstein” for the Two Minutes Hate.


37 posted on 08/28/2014 7:29:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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