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.
http://truthy.indiana.edu/about
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“social pollution”
What a chillingly Orwellian locution.
"Which is anything that prevents us from keeping our namby-pamby jobs."