USA 2020 Elections: Thread

[grarpamp]

AI, Censorship and Social Steering Technology Fronts
are apparently all up in your "Free Democracy", lol...


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-deploying-darpa-funded-information-warfare-tool-to-promote-biden
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/technology-once-used-to-combat-isis-propaganda-is-enlisted-by-democratic-group-to-counter-trumps-coronavirus-messaging/2020/05/01/6bed5f70-8a5b-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html

"Defeat Disinfo will utilize "artificial intelligence and network
analysis to "intervene" by "identifying the most popular
counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than
3.4 million influencers across the country - in some cases paying
users with large followings to take sides against the president.
An anti-Trump Democratic-aligned political action committee advised
by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
The initiative is run by Curtis Hougland, who received initial
funding for the technology from DARPA, the Pentagon's research arm"



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/technology/biden-facebook-misinformation.html
The Joe Biden campaign will circulate a petition and an open letter
to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, to change the company's
hands-off approach to political speech. The campaign will urge its
supporters to push the social media giant to strengthen its rules
against misinformation and harmful comments... [harmful to Democrats].