The National Science Foundation’s Division of Social and Economic Sciences gave a nearly $200K grant to Mississippi State University to create an AI-based database of citizens’ posts related to Covid-19. The program was called “RAPID: Analyses of Emotions Expressed in Social Media and Forums During the Covid-19 Pandemic.”
It appears the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee has once again chosen the third way to violate Americans’ rights, the fascist way, where the state uses “private industry” to violate our rights rather than do it directly. Sometimes that’s done through direct order (as partially appears to be the case in the Twitter Files) and sometimes that’s done using cash, as it was here.
The award’s abstract reads, “The data will permit analyses of risks such as sharing of more personal information online, misinformation initiation and spread, relaxed security preferences, and insider threat.”
Apparently, the researchers collected almost 15 million citizens’ posts from December 2019 to December 2020. It paid particular attention to posts claiming Covid-19 came from China, something the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee needed to conceal as the U.S. funded the very lab the virus appears now to have come from.
From The Federalist:
Posts were gathered from mainstream, albeit biased and predominantly leftwing, platforms like YouTube, Reddit, Tumblr, pre-Musk Twitter, and visual media hosting site Flickr; the conservative social media site Parler (prior to its post-Jan. 6 throttling) and Gab; 8kun and 4chan where fringe debates regardless of ideology can be held freely; and the leftist safe haven of Mastadon.
One part of the report reveals the far-left nature of the “researchers” that conducted this DNC de facto spying on Americans. Researchers first of all were tracking “misinformation” as defined by the DNC, and from that starting point they concluded that hives of far left extremism like reddit were the least “offending,” claiming “least amount of misinformation on platforms where there was more regulation, like Reddit.”
This writer thinks the “researchers” probably moonlight as Antifa fire starters and goons.
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