Quote from: Wilikon on August 26, 2014, 01:33:09 AM

The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track misinformation and hate speech on Twitter.

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.

The project stands to benefit both the research community and the public significantly, the grant states. Our data will be made available via [application programming interfaces] APIs and include information on meme propagation networks, statistical data, and relevant user and content features.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/

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Who defines what hate speech is? They should spend more time monitoring 4chan for the fun of it

Social medias has got so much reactive these days,any act of violence could just rise up reading some couple of words in a social media.