◼ Conservatives kick-start government’s $1 million #Truthy ‘misinformation’ database - TWITCHY
Cool. Obama is spending $1M in taxpayer money to track "misinformation" and "hate speech" on Twitter. #WhatFreeSpeech #Truthy
— Princess Chelsea (@chelsea_elisa) August 25, 2014Anyone nostalgic for the Obama campaign’s “Attack Watch” project will be heartened to know that the federal government plans to spend $1 million to create a “Truthy” database that will track “false and misleading ideas” on social media. ◼ The Washington Free Beacon reports:
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.
“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.
Twitter is awash in sarcasm, & even human intelligence has difficulty detecting it. #Truthy will fail spectacularly in this area.
— Hired Mind (@thehiredmind) August 25, 2014◼ Media curiously silent on “Truthy” - Where is the outrage over our government spending one million of our taxpayer dollars being spent on a project that would completely undermine free speech?! - HotAir
