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Report:
US Preparing Mass AI Surveillance of its Citizens - Report

Over 500 AI projects - each receiving thousands if not millions of dollars in federal funding - are reportedly being amassed to clamp down on “misinformation” and “disinformation” online and identify the origins of what Washington deems hate speech, according to a report by The Federalist.

Primer Technologies' $3m award for its “social media event monitoring” allows it to assess online conversations, identify who takes part in them, the relationships between participants, and their location, as well as the “sentiment” of the discussion and any opposing narratives, the report says.

The Department of Defense also allegedly gave $1.5m to PeakMetrics, which tracks over 1.5m news sources, blogs, social networks, podcasts, TV/radio, [and] email newsletters,” and was awarded a separate payment from the Air Force to “create technology for rapid assessment and quantification of disinformation for DoD operators," the paper adds. (RT)

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