teapartysamurai
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Anyone 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.
Conservatives kick-start government 8217 s 1 million Truthy 8216 misinformation 8217 database Twitchy
Feds Creating Database to Track Hate Speech on TwitterWashington Free Beacon Washington Free Beacon
Another attempt to intimidate conservatives on twitter and conservatves on twitter are, AGAIN, sending the message they don't intimidate, easily.
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Like #attackwatch, Obama doesn't like the fact that people on twitter are taking his name in vain.
That darn freedom of speech! You conservatives keep on "abusing" that freedom.
It reminds me of a line from the Clash's "Know your Rights."
"You have the right to free speech. Just so long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it!"
Pretty hilarious! I mean we can't have lies on twitter!
Like if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
Your premiums will go down by $2,500.
Shovel Ready jobs?
A video caused Benghazi.
The IRS emails were destroyed.
Hey! There are lots of lies out there!