The government is colluding with social media platforms to censor Americans

For decades, the Pentagon and other federal agencies have been quietly partnering with private organizations to develop powerful surveillance and intervention tools designed to monitor and influence narratives on social media.

For example, a 2021 Pentagon program called Civil Sanctuary sought to develop AI tools to scale the moderation capability of social media platforms to create what it describes as a more stable information environment. In other words, the goal of this Pentagon program was to exponentially multiply the government s ability to coordinate censorship of online speech.

The Pentagon has invested millions of taxpayer dollars to develop these tools not only for the use of social media companies but also by the intelligence community and law enforcement.

Meanwhile, the Department of Commerce (DOC) is awarding million-dollar grants for cognitive research into how the U.S. government can foster trust in AI with the general public.

So, while the federal government is using taxpayer dollars to develop AI to surveil and monitor Americans online speech, it is also spending money to figure out how to get you to trust the AI.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

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