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DrafterX
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11 years ago

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Feds creating database to track ‘hate speech’ on Twitter
August 26, 2014

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.

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opelmanta1900
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11 years ago

sooooooooooooo.... big brother is watching?

DrafterX
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11 years ago

That's what I heard... 😟

Abrignac
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11 years ago

Another complete was of tax $$$.

TrishS@CigarBid
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11 years ago

Another complete was of tax $$$.

Abrignac wrote:

^^ This and that little part of the Constitution that says something about Freedom of Speech. I mean, once we track it, what are we going to do with it? Just keep looking at it? I doubt it...

Wonder what our Founding Fathers would think of this government it created

DrafterX
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11 years ago

they'd prolly break out the ban hammer.... 😟

[sarcasm]

Edited by user 11 years ago | Reason: Not specified

Abrignac
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11 years ago

TrishS@CigarBid wrote:

Not trying to be snarky Trish, but one of the mods edited one of my posts. In essence giving me credit for a post where my words were changed by someone else, but making it appear as if I wrote it. Though it was benign, I'm thinking this a perfect example of why mods shouldn't edit another persons post. Perhaps deleting it would be a better choice.

DrafterX
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11 years ago

sounds kinda snarky to me....... 😟

[sarcasm]

kombat96
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11 years ago

Twitter the next downside of brains

ZRX1200
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11 years ago

#10

Trish the US Supreme Court decided that propaganda was legal. So via the Patriot act a US citizen can be murdered without trial and due process, secret courts can authorize unconstitutional surveillance. And the whole time they can use propagandize their actions

But watch what you say on twitter.... the feds may find you owe them more than $3.75!

kombat96
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11 years ago

#11

Cbid is big sister

TrishS@CigarBid
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11 years ago

#12

Abrignac wrote:

I modified it. I didn't realize that I should allow competitor reference because YOU posted it. I'll do better next time...
[sarcasm]

This is a no-win situation. If I delete your response, everyone questions it. If I edit the post, you question it. If I leave the competitor reference, then its ok for everyone to do it all the time....

I really think this was a mountain-molehill thing. But I deleted it as you requested.

victor809
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11 years ago

#13

If you read the article carefully you'll realize that this isn't a federal agency. They try to imply it is. But it's simply a grant from the NSF (National Science Foundation). This is an Indiana University database....

The article likes to imply that this is some sort of big brother, "NSA is spying on us and collecting everything we do" thing. But it's really nothing more interesting than Snopes or some other similar site which catalogs false ideas, memes etc. This is just developing a software front-end to make it more efficient.

The NSF providing money? Well, if you look carefully, the person developing it asked the NSF for money and successfully defended the idea that it would be beneficial.

victor809
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11 years ago

#14

This is a no-win situation. If I delete your response, everyone questions it. If I edit the post, you question it. If I leave the competitor reference, then its ok for everyone to do it all the time....

I really think this was a mountain-molehill thing. But I deleted it as you requested.

TrishS@CigarBid wrote:

Next time he whines about it just change his whole post to "I love Trish. I love Trish"... It's what he really is trying to say anyway.