Tue Jan 31, 2023 – 10:49 am EST
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(WND News Center) — The United States government, back in the day, fought “misinformation” being spread by ISIS by creating military-grade artificial intelligence that quickly identified and censored the ideologies the radicals were disseminating.
Now the feds’ plan is to adapt that tech so that Americans who dissent from the politically correct lines on vaccine safety and election integrity can also be censored.
That’s according to a new report from Just the News which cited grant documents and cyber experts.
The report said the National Science Foundation already has handed out millions of dollars to “universities and private firms” to build tools “eerily similar to those developed in 2011 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
At that time, it was running the Social Media in Strategic Communication program, and those tools helped “identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information.”
They were used during the Arab Spring uprisings when the turbulence in the Middle East spawned ISIS. The report said back then that the idea was to track and minimize the impact of “dissidents” who wanted
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