Tue Jan 31, 2023 – 6:22 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. government is funding research into new AI-assisted tools with which to suppress dissent on mainstream narratives, such as those regarding COVID-19 “vaccines” and the origins of the virus.
Noting that the onset of COVID led to “normalizing censorship in the name of public health,” Mike Benz of the Foundation for Freedom Online recently explained on “Just The News No Noise,” referring to tech platforms. “What’s happened now is the government says, ‘ … we’re going to supercharge you guys with all sorts of DARPA military grade censorship, weaponry, so that you can now take what you’ve achieved in the censorship space and scale it to the level of a U.S. counterinsurgency operation.’”
Just the News highlighted grant documents showing how the National Science Foundation, an independent agency of the U.S. government, is funding research into ways to “improv[e] capacity to detect, monitor, manage, and mitigate inauthentic behaviors and misinformation campaigns.”
The censorship technology is among the “Convergence Accelerator projects” funded by the grant, under the label “Trust & Authenticity in Communications Systems (Track F).”
According to the grant document, the program will use advanced
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