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2020-05-04 Fifth Column
Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal goes full POS with our money
[FOX] An anti-Trump Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal is planning to deploy an information warfare tool that received initial funding from DARPA, the Pentagon’s secretive research arm -- transforming technology originally envisioned as a way to fight ISIS propaganda into a campaign platform to benefit Joe Biden.
Is anyone else beginning to detect a pattern, or is it just me ?
The Washington Post first reported that the initiative, called Defeat Disinfo, will utilize "artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president’s claims on social media," and then attempt to "intervene" by "identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country — in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president."

Social media guru Curtis Hougland is heading up Defeat Disinfo, and he received the funding from DARPA when his program was "part of an effort to combat extremism overseas." He explained in an interview with the Post that he was unhappy that top social media accounts often supported Trump, and had effectively defended the president in recent days from claims that he had suggested Americans inject themselves with disinfectant.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-04 05:35|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Same story - Stars & Stripes
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-04 08:08||   2020-05-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Social media guru Curtis Hougland is heading up Defeat Disinfo, and he received the funding from DARPA when his program was "part of an effort to combat extremism overseas."

Perhaps some US taxpayer "DARPA" funded research intervention could have helped prevent the current CV-19 unpleasantness. Oh WAIT !
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-04 08:25||   2020-05-04 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Just a reminder, generals never really retire and are subject to recall to active duty.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-04 08:26||   2020-05-04 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ I don't see a problem with a GOMO initiated 12 month recall. Some corner office on the E-Ring while he responds to the Article-32 investigation. Give him a laptop. He likes laptops. Mike Hastings can sort his mail and help take calls.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-04 08:31||   2020-05-04 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmm... DoD funded research is being used for domestic spying political campaigns? Where's the FEC on this?
Posted by Lex 2020-05-04 08:36||   2020-05-04 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6  [Search domain www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02//
The founder and CEO of Main Street One, Curtis Hougland, specializes in combating "hate speech and online extremism" and "right-wing voices," Vanity Fair reports. "While Hougland is not a boldface name in Washington, he is one of several outside-the-Beltway technologists working to usher Democratic politics into the social media age ...
Posted by b 2020-05-04 08:46||   2020-05-04 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 It is almost doubtlessly illegal for a number of reasons (the funding, the use, etc). But nothing will come of it, because "Resistance" to "Evil Orange Man" excuses any level of wrongdoing. Somebody could drop a nuke on Washington D.C., and as long as it wasn't a Republican politician, the Democrats would cheer as long as it killed Trump and Pence.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-05-04 08:47||   2020-05-04 08:47|| Front Page Top

#8 SS Rides Again
Posted by Lex 2020-05-04 09:26||   2020-05-04 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Prob a bunch of panty twisters over how exposed DEMs are. Clever to announce it for Biden support.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-04 09:51||   2020-05-04 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10 These are the same people who scream bloody murder when Russian bots troll social media. But, hey Stan, if Putin can do it, why shouldn't you?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-04 11:05||   2020-05-04 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Can't wait for one of these trolls to show up here at Rantburg.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-04 11:16||   2020-05-04 11:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Where's the FEC on this?

Good point Lex!
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-04 16:37||   2020-05-04 16:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Also where is Barely Barr on this?!
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-04 16:38||   2020-05-04 16:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Can't wait for one of these trolls to show up here at Rantburg.

One?
Wait?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-04 18:27||   2020-05-04 18:27|| Front Page Top

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