Biden is taxpayer funding to create anti-conservative AI censorship tools

Beginning with Franklin Roosevelt, the mainstream media began to lean left, but it was subtle and still hewed to American constitutional and cultural norms. The lean became overt with Nixon’s presidency and accelerated in extremism during Reagan’s and both Bushes’ administrations. With Trump, though, the media shifted from bias to outright dishonesty and censorship. We had the Russia Hoax, the Ukraine Hoax, and, perhaps most deleteriously, the “Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation” Hoax. Worse is to come, though, and you’re paying for it: The Biden administration is using taxpayer dollars to fund an AI system that will assist the media in targeting conservatives. This is criminally unconstitutional

The New York Post writes that Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, has released a report about the fact that the National Sciences Foundation is giving out money to prominent hard-left academic institutions under the heading of a program entitled “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems.”

That’s an Orwellian title that’s remarkably opaque. Behind it, though, lurks something known as “Track F,” a title that’s even more obfuscatory. What Track F does is work to create an AI system to identify people who have fallen prey to “misinformation” and creates tools to reeducate these misguided souls. The targets are those with “vulnerabilities to disinformation methods.”

For starts, the government shouldn’t be involved in identifying “information” versus “misinformation.” We’ve seen in the last seven years that this has nothing to do with straight facts—as in “X says President Biden wore a green suit. This is incorrect. He wore a red suit.”

But it’s worse than the government funding an AI program to identify what we all know are actually opinions. It turns out that the AI program’s creators are designing the systems to garget very specific opinions. Per the New York Post:

At MIT, one researcher told NSF officials “broad swaths of the public cannot effectively sort truth from fiction online.”
The researcher specifically called out “military veterans, older adults, military families” and those in “rural and indigenous communities” as particularly vulnerable to believing misinformation.
At the University of Michigan, one researcher who received millions suggested one possible outcome of the research was outsourcing content “moderation” decisions from social media platforms to government officials.
“Our misinformation service helps policy makers at platforms who want to… push responsibility for difficult judgments to someone outside the company… by externalizing the difficult responsibility of censorship,” a researcher at the University of Michigan’ said in a pitch to the NSF.
Another researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison who received funding said the team, “was specifically focused on… skepticism regarding the integrity of U.S. elections and hesitancy related to COVID-19 vaccines.”
The researchers point to certain groups like those that read “the Bible or the Constitution” as subject to misinformation.
“Because interviewees distrusted both journalists and academics, they drew on this practice to fact check how media outlets reported the news” — when in actuality they weren’t fully informing themselves, the researcher said in a message.
A researcher at University of Washington which received funding to create a similar tool under another program — the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program — wrote to an NSF official that countering disinformation is “inherently political” and is ultimately “censorship.”

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