Quote:The National Science Foundation’s “Convergence Accelerator Track F” Is Funding Domestic Censorship Superweapons (Foundation for Freedom Online, Jan 29, 2023)

Summary

The US government is giving millions to university labs and private firms to stop domestic US citizen opinions on social media.

The National Science Foundation is taking a program set up to solve "grand challenges" like quantum technology and using it for the science of censorship.

Government-funded projects are sorting massive databases of American political and social communities into categories like “misinformation tweeters" and "misinformation followers."

Before we describe the “Science of Censorship” federal grant program that is the focus of this report, perhaps the most disturbing introduction is to watch how grantees of your tax dollars describe themselves.
 
In the promo video below, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant project WiseDex explains how the federal government is funding it to provide social media platforms with “fast, comprehensive and consistent” censorship solutions. WiseDex builds sprawling databases of banned keywords and factual claims to sell to companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. It then integrates this banned-claims databases into censorship algorithms, so that “harmful misinformation stops reaching big audiences.”