It was bad enough when Big Tech put the clamps down on memes and independent information, but now the Pentagon is getting in on the war against digital speech under the guise of preventing fake news.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which serves as the technology arm of the Department of Defense (DOD), is leading a project against “large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.” They are creating a network of algorithms that will scan information and suppress what they deem is “fake news.”
They will be debuting this state-of-the-art software to detect misinformation that is hidden within 500,000 pieces of media to demonstrate its efficacy. After a four year test run, the software will likely be expanded to the detection of “malicious content” – a nebulous term that could be used to encompass pretty much anything.
ht/ fdr in hell
Is this the same Pentagon that couldn’t stop being attacked by several of 19 hijackers 18 years ago?
I’d sure like to see someone leak that DARPA software so we could modify it and turn it loose to suppress statist mis- and dis-information and propaganda.
“suppress” – they must have some huge www bit bucket with a vacuum attachment. I don’t like the sound of it. Infowars has Trump considering the notion. I know.
It’s going to be time to change the name…
from Pentagon to Pentagram.
@ Loco – that day was a physical attack from others, now it’s ethereal, and from a domestic source.
That was a very complicated morning…and DARPA is a nice result, of lurking, and the expanded Patriot Act and FISA rules.
Hmm… funny this robo-bot can’t detect liberal disinformation. It only detects facts and labels them as lies.
Hmm…
Time to go back to snail mail if you want any privacy.
Those fools who stuck their entire life story, including
the parts where they were bleeping assholes, online
are now regretting it.
Protect your kids from this crap. Get them clued in
and offline as much as possible.
The political cartoon and comedy are now “malicious content”?
FBI, DOJ, NSA, MENSA, NAAPC, DEA, DOE, DOA, Patriot Act, TSA…… ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL! All requiring disbandment. I am sure I omitted a few.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Yes, our main concern is the spread of memes, that may be truthful and therefore objectionable to those they embarrass.
Looking at you San Francisco gaywads!
Details now about the 9/10/2001 Rumsfeld announcement:
“The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it’s stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.”
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Monday September 10th, 2001.
2 Decades later, so glad to know this is the current major purpose and concern,,,
Any idea of how much this has cost the US now?
Details, details, F’it
DARPA is going to try
To censor the internet lies.
In their wildest of dreams,
They’ll shut down all our memes,
But they still can’t hide Biden’s red eyes.