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Puzzle Palace to monitor social networking sites for potential threats
 The US Department of Defence is offering $42m (£25m) to fund research into monitoring social networks to track the formation, development and spread of ideas, and identify misinformation and attempts to foment unrest. The move by DARPA, the defence advanced research projects agency, comes in the wake of use of social networks by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq and by home-grown threats such as Anonymous. DARPA is also seeking to identify people involved in such activity, what their intentions are and the impact of online campaigns to shape opinions or gather support on an issue, according to a document presented at the offices of the military contractor System Planning Corporation. DARPA did not respond to requests for comment from the NYT.
Posted by: Pappy 2011-08-08 |
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