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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
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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