‘1984’ in 2014? Fed Gov’t Funds ‘Truthy’ Database to Monitor Hate Speech, Suspicious Memes

Fox News Insider ^ | Aug. 28, 2014 9:46 AM

[Olog-hai]

The federal government is spending close to $1 million of your money on an online tracking program that will supposedly search for so-called “hate speech” or “misinformation” on Twitter.

On Fox and Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. brought us more details on the “Truthy” database, which intends to monitor suspicious Internet memes as well as false or misleading ideas spreading around social media. […]

The Indiana professor who is leading the project, Filippo Menczer, had previously identified a list of hashtags that he believed fell under the categories of “far right” and “polarizing.”

Among those that he listed were #foxnews, #constitution and #israel. …

[Old Sarge]

My loathing of the illegitimate, bisexual, Marxist Kenyan Muslim Usurper requires a stiff drink.

[SunkenCiv]

> The Indiana professor who is leading the project, Filippo Menczer, had previously identified a list of hashtags that he believed fell under the categories of “far right” and “polarizing.”

The terms “far right” and “polarizing” are hate speech.

[UCANSEE2]

"Fed Gov’t Funds ‘Truthy’ Database to Monitor Hate Speech, Suspicious Memes..."

And people who call Obama a cartoon character.

[UCANSEE2]

and other social pollution.”

"Which is anything that prevents us from keeping our namby-pamby jobs."

[UCANSEE2]

“... had previously identified a list of hashtags that he believed fell under the categories of “far right” and “polarizing.”

What, No hashtags for #far-left ?

[UCANSEE2]

May I offer a slight modification ?

Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy communist front groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority.

[UCANSEE2]

“social pollution”

So they're gonna sick the EPA on us ?

Will it be like carbon credits where the elite buy 'social credits' and are free to say whatever they want ?

[Steve_Seattle]

Menczer, the project lead, appears to be a blatant liar. The university's own project description, in the section titled "Research Objectives", states that that the project will " . . . detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution." Yet, in a critique of a Fox News report in the project, he says that, "Truthy is not intended and is not capable to determine whether a statement constitutes 'misinformation'". If not, then why does the project description say it will do just that?

Also, I would like to know how the professor and his associates define "social pollution." That sounds like a very subjective and very arbitrary concept. It sounds like crap science.

[Steve_Seattle]

See my post #28. “Social pollution” is indeed a very odd term in a supposedly scientific study. It reeks of non-scientific bias. It almost sounds like something the Nazis would have studied.

[Bshaw]

Now that is funny right there. What is that from?

[sten]

somebody’s kid got a juicy contract

seriously, this is a weekend project. hook to the various feeds, push them thru a parser, index/score the item based on a phrase database rating the item on a multitude of categories, then notify associated email if the score exceeds a threshold, also specified in the database.

[dfwgator]

We can’t go on together
With suspicious memes
And we can’t build our dreams
On suspicious memes

[elcid1970]

We FReepers are already on a government s***list.

This just makes it official, IMO.

[Iron Munro]

My loathing of the illegitimate, bisexual, Marxist Kenyan Muslim Usurper requires a stiff drink.

Don't be so retentive - tell the NSA how you really feel.