http://twitter.com/#!/chelsea_elisa/status/504007135123210241

Anyone nostalgic for the Obama campaign’s “Attack Watch” project will be heartened to know that the federal government plans to spend $1 million to create a “Truthy” database that will track “false and misleading ideas” on social media. The Washington Free Beacon reports:

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.

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“Truthy” claims to be non-partisan. However, the project’s lead investigator Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority.

http://twitter.com/#!/OHCONSERVATISM/status/504024132653424641

Some on Twitter were anxious to get started populating the “Truthy” database.

http://twitter.com/#!/southsalem/status/503997647741796353
http://twitter.com/#!/neontaster/status/504000216471961601
http://twitter.com/#!/back_ttys/status/504002090260512769
http://twitter.com/#!/ChrisBarnhart/status/504004246854172672
http://twitter.com/#!/CuffyMeh/status/504010946394996736
http://twitter.com/#!/allanbourdius/status/504020877634441217
http://twitter.com/#!/theshoebart/status/504027594879410176
http://twitter.com/#!/Nayrue/status/504028705455624193
http://twitter.com/#!/Kerryepp/status/504027071195381760
http://twitter.com/#!/moderncomments/status/504021071956557825
http://twitter.com/#!/GrantGambling/status/504027199553687552

 

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/25/conservatives-kick-start-governments-1-million-truthy-misinformation-database/