Feds Spend A Million On Misinformation Research Grant - Granite Grok

Feds Spend A Million On Misinformation Research Grant

Obama wanted us spying on each otherDemocrats are obsessed with controlling what they define as ‘ misinformation.’  Remember AttackWatch?  How about those White House requests to spy on your neighbors?  Invitations to share the email addresses of your friends, family, or coworkers (or others) with the government from so they could address any misinformation they had been sharing…you know,  so the government could…straighten them out.  There were DCCC cheat sheets every Thanksgiving to set the record straight–and make sure you take note of who in the family disagrees with you…

Then there’s all the NSA spying, strong arming to get internet data, spying on journalists, congress, our so-called allies overseas….

Each of these has been met with varying degrees of concern  (ridicule and derision) over the Stasi like tactics being employed by the Obama administration.  But that has not stopped them.

Our Democrat President is still using his intelligence apparatus to spy on all of us, but why stop there?

Why not give a grant to a University to create a way to identify political misinformation in social media…you know, so you can walk them to the side, a reassuring hand on their shoulder–just like Dad or Gramps used to do–and then use the force of government to straighten their misinformed ass out.

Welcome to the real world.

The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.

The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”

The university has received $919,917 so far for the project.

I see this as nothing more than the latest Attack Watch via Federal Grant, disguised as research, buried under a rock, with the word ‘Science’ written on it, probably in someone elses blood.

It is also clearly an admission that the left does not control Twitter.

Note to the left.  As with all the invasions you support when proposed and funded by Democrats (with or without taxpayer dollars), how will you feel when a Republican is president and inherits all this intrusive precedent from your anointed Barack Obama?

You see, I don’t want them to have it either.

And finally, if you tweet this post, will it show up in their “Truthy” database?

Hot Air

 

>