FBI conspiring with National Science Foundation to linguistically surveil the social media posts of ‘anti-vax’ activists and health freedom activists
by: Jennifer Lea Reynolds
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, March 06, 2016
It’s been said that the government – specifically the FBI – is working alongside the National Science Foundation to study the ways in which online information is spread and social media memes go viral. While that all sounds rather interesting, it looks as though there may be more to it than merely assessing the neat little ways some posts spread like wildfire while others remain stagnant.
Apparently, the effort – which has about $1 million behind it to date – is part of a system dubbed “Truthy,” that has its sights set on “modeling the diffusion of information online and empirically discriminating among models of mechanisms driving the spread of memes.” In a way that sounds rather 1984 Orwellian, it’s stated that “the analysis will involve studying meme diffusion in large-scale social media by collecting and analyzing massive streams of public micro-blogging data.”
Sure sounds like a fancy way of saying that we’re being spied on, as our every move is tracked, all in an effort to “result in a better understanding of information flow,” and help “assist in elucidating the complex mechanisms that underlie a variety of human dynamics and organizations.”
Protecting the public … by spying on us?
What? But more importantly, why?
The Rest…HERE
