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Home Front: Politix

Dems deploying DARPA-funded AI-driven information warfare tool to target pro-Trump accounts

2020-10-18

A reminder from last May:

[FoxNews] An anti-Trump Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal
(spit)
is planning to deploy an information warfare tool that reportedly received initial funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (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.

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."

Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#2 so is the witch coming??

Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 2020-10-18 14:05

#1 It seems like this strategy would depend on not being exposed. People wouldn't like to find out they were tools.

Posted by: gorb 2020-10-18 02:44

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