We now have the US Army jumping into Internet censorship. They have announced a combat partnership with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock that is effective through 2025. They plan to combat disinformation online, which they define as cognitive threats, reports Reclaim the Net.
The goal is to detect and combat bad actors online who are trying to manipulate how and what populations think.
If they decide the actor is good, does that mean they let them go on manipulating? The initiative has a grant worth $5 million. More and more universities in the US are getting hired by nonprofits and the government to work toward this goal. The UA Little Rock case is called Collaboration for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies or COSMOS research center. in addition to the army, the project was put together by Senator John Boozeman.
War is on the social media platforms, according to these people. They’re going to develop a tool to detect bots on social media, and it will be web-based. And it’s going to be to prevent those who would exploit the biases and algorithms to further narratives and agendas.
I was reading recently that some people feel that the Internet was only free in the beginning to lure us all in and that they always intended this. Nothing would surprise me, but it doesn’t matter any longer. It’s here and done.
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