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Feds creating db to track hate speech on twitter. In other words ...
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:43 am
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:43 am
... they are creating a way to track people that do not agree with Obama.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/
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https://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/
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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.
“Truthy,” which gets its name from Stephen Colbert, will catalog how information is spread on Twitter, including political campaigns.
“While the vast majority of memes arise in a perfectly organic manner, driven by the complex mechanisms of life on the Web, some are engineered by the shady machinery of high-profile congressional campaigns,” according to the website.
“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.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:48 am to scrooster
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“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.
As non-partisan as Rex and SpidermanTuba
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:26 am to scrooster
This will likely be akin to SNOPES and other fact check type sites that have a distinct liberal progressive interpolation of the facts.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:30 am to davesdawgs
I'm pretty sure the hate speech on the Rant alone will cause the system to crash
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:39 am to scrooster
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The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”
So basically, Scroosters entire FB newsfeed will be monitored.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:40 am to scrooster
Just another towards Russia. We're halfway over the Atlantic now
I have a dream that one day the government that is run by the American people will trust the American people itself. Like it once was designed to do!
(Lofty and unreasonable dream)
I have a dream that one day the government that is run by the American people will trust the American people itself. Like it once was designed to do!
(Lofty and unreasonable dream)
This post was edited on 8/26/14 at 10:42 am
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:42 am to scrooster
These are the types of stories that show we really need to get past the separation of Republican and Democrat. Because if a Republican president was doing this, they're be plenty of posters on here who would beat telling us why this makes sense and what we need to understand about why the government needs to monitor free speech. But because a Democrat president is doing it, we're pissed off. And vice versa. The The sooner we understand that no one inside the beltway cares one single bit about us, the better off we will be as a country.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:45 am to the808bass
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These are the types of stories that show we really need to get past the separation of Republican and Democrat. Because if a Republican president was doing this, they're be plenty of posters on here who would beat telling us why this makes sense and what we need to understand about why the government needs to monitor free speech. But because a Democrat president is doing it, we're pissed off. And vice versa. The The sooner we understand that no one inside the beltway cares one single bit about us, the better off we will be as a country.
right. because the average republican voter was AOK with the patriot act?
bollocks and you know it.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:48 am to 3nOut
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right. because the average republican voter was AOK with the patriot act?
There were plenty who were or they would've dumped their Senators and Representative who voted for it. Republicans in 2001-2 were so scared of Islam that they gave up a lot of freedom. Where we are now in the Republican Party is nowhere near where it was in 2000-04.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:51 am to 3nOut
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because the average republican voter was AOK with the patriot act?
Ughhhh, didnt they elect the people who came up with the patriot act?
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:53 am to TreyAnastasio
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Ughhhh, didnt they elect the people who came up with the patriot act?
Ughhhh, so did you, bipartisan support in Congress. So eat a big bowl of dick
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:54 am to Vols&Shaft83
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so did you
Ya. I voted for Bush.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:57 am to TreyAnastasio
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Ya. I voted for Bush.
So all this shite is your fault? And it was passed before you were old enough to vote, so once again, find a big bowl of dick and consume it.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:58 am to Vols&Shaft83
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And it was passed before you were old enough to vote
No it wasnt
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:06 am to TreyAnastasio
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Ughhhh, didnt they elect the people who came up with the patriot act?
they did indeed.
and what happened in the 2004 and 2006 elections?
the Dems took control of house and senate. so somebody obviously put their money where their mouth is.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:12 am to TreyAnastasio
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No it wasnt
Mother fricker, you are 28. George Bush was elected in 2000 and the Patriot Act was passed in October of 2001. You are lying sir.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:14 am to Vols&Shaft83
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you are 28
Strange that you know that
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George Bush was elected in 2000 and the Patriot Act was passed in October of 2001. You are lying sir.
I was mistaken. I thought it was passed during his second term.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:17 am to TreyAnastasio
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:18 am to scrooster
that website would be so much better if it was freebacon.com
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:19 am to Vols&Shaft83
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We have the same birthday, remember.
No, I forgot that.
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