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Taxpayer-funded initiative collected 600,000 political tweets in its ‘database,’ bragged about having conservative Twitter accounts suspended Elizabeth Harrington The Washington Free Beacon 11/10/2014 The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, demanding answers about the origins of the nearly $1 million taxpayer-funded […] November 10th, 2014 | Tags: "Truthy", Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, National Science Foundation, Rep. Lamar Smith, Twitter | Category: 1st Amendment, Congress, Politics, Progressives, Social networking websites, Taxes | Comments are closed
Ajit Pai Opinion The Washington Post 10/17/2014 If you take to Twitter to express your views on a hot-button issue, does the government have an interest in deciding whether you are spreading “misinformation’’? If you tweet your support for a candidate in the November elections, should taxpayer money be used to monitor your speech […] October 19th, 2014 | Tags: "social pollution", "Truthy", Ajit Pai, hashtags, Indiana University, memes, misinformation, National Science Foundation, partisan politics, popular culture, propaganda, Twitter | Category: 1st Amendment, FCC, Marxism, Politics, Social networking websites | Comments are closed
Robby Soave Reason.com 8/25/2014 The federal government is sponsoring a creepy social media research project: The aim is to produce a database of politically disfavored tweets, misinformation, and “other social pollution.” The grant for the project—made by the National Science Foundation to Indiana University—was discovered by The Washington Free Beacon’s Elizabeth Harrington, who writes: The […] August 25th, 2014 | Tags: "Organizing for Action", "Truthy", Filippo Menczer, Greenpeace, Indiana University, misinformation, MoveOn.org, National Science Foundation, propaganda, Stephen Colbert, Twitter | Category: 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, Federal spending, Politics, Progressives, Social networking websites, Taxes | Comments are closed
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