The Government’s disinformation squad is secretly building an AI programme to scour social media for “concerning” posts – so it can step in and “take action”. The Telegraphhas the story.
Records show the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) recently awarded a £2.3 million contract to Faculty AI to build monitoring software which can search for “foreign interference”, detect deepfakes and “analyse social media narratives”.
The platform is part of the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) which was set up in 2019 and sparked widespread criticism for amassing files on journalists, academics and MPs who challenged the Government’s narrative during the pandemic.
The unit, which has since been rebranded the National Security Online Information Team (NSOIT), has links to the intelligence agencies, which has allowed it to avoid public scrutiny.
DSIT said the new AI tool, called the Counter Disinformation Data Platform (CDDP), is looking solely for posts “which pose a threat to national security and public safety risk”.
The current focus of beta testing is the influence of foreign states during elections.
However, heavily redacted documents obtained by Big Brother Watch through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests show that the Government is reserving the right to also use the platform for other issues.
An executive summary for the project states: “While the CDDP has a current national security focus the tool has the ability to be pivoted to focus on any priority area.” …
Since 2021, contracts show the Government has spent more than £5.3 million on developing the CDDP and other disinformation projects including “detecting coronavirus disinformation” and “analysing climate related mis/disinformation on social media”. …
A recent report on the CDDP – disclosed via FoI – shows the platform would be used by analysts to “find the most concerning posts” so they can be reported to “policymakers and ops teams on what may require action”. …
Lord Young of the Free Speech Union said: “To scale up the British arm of the censorship-industrial complex at a time when it’s being dismantled on the other side of the Atlantic is politically unwise, to put it mildly.
“It’s particularly tin-eared given that the social media platforms that will be targeted by this new robo-censor are all American-owned.
“To the Trump-Vance administration this will look like another attempt to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’, the self-professed agenda of a pro-censorship lobby group founded by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.”
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Thought Police. Churchill warned of this in the ’45 election (a Gestapo). Much pilloried of course. Seems prescient to me. I know of a white woman (Catholic of course, never Muzzie or Black etc) who was arrested for tweets opposing the tranny agenda. Police arrested her in front of her 5 children. Other Christians arrested for silent prayers outside of Moloch’s baby-murdering shops. Starmtard’s ‘online speech bill’ will only hasten the demise of thinking and speaking. You might well be arrested for just how you look, or if someone sees that you sport a cross or some symbol they don’t like.
An executive summary for the project states: “While the CDDP has a current national security focus the tool has the ability to be pivoted to focus on any priority area.” …
There will be a terrible temptation for politicians to expand the scope of monitoring to any ‘crisis of the week’ that captures their attention. Mission creep for creeps, perhaps?
Call him mad but Davis Icke warned about all of this decades ago.
Michael Ford
6 months ago
The people are the nation, not the government, and particularly not the last two governments who have clearly betrayed their own people and committed treason. The only people that “pose a threat to national security” and are a “public safety risk” are the treacherous elites forcing globalist Marxist policy on the masses.
A point I have made time and again, and cannot be over-emphasised.
klf
6 months ago
“analyse social media narratives”.
Another attempt to shut down debate. Some (perhaps many) people will be dissuaded from publicly voicing their opinions. Others won’t be stopped at all. But perhaps many will modify their language to be more nuanced and subtle, to go under the AI radar and avoid plod feeling their collar.
And yet, unless the government and courts become extraordinarily draconian, they will not succeed in shutting down unapproved narratives. When sites like this start producing tame and approved narratives (content and comments), then I will know that the game is up.
The game is never up. If the worst comes to the worst we will resort to the printed word. I imagine every household with a computer will have a printer / photocopier.
‘looking solely for posts “which pose a threat to national security and public safety risk”.
Given that the vast majority of “security and public safety risks” are perpetrated by the ROPers we scumbag whities have nothing to worry about unless we perhaps post some hurty words about Kneel’s mates.
Hester
6 months ago
Its our money, by what right do they steal our money to spy on us, to send the Police in, to censor and ruin lives so they can stay in power.
We are the most watched population in the world, and yet our Police are incapable of solving burglaries, Murders, Rapes, abductions. But they can destroy people who write or say anything against the Government or its selected priority communities.
Is this not a possible case that the Free Speech society could bring against the Government.
RTSC
5 months ago
In what way is Two-Tier substantially different from Eric Honecker?
coviture2020
5 months ago
Our freedoms started to be restricted under Blair
kev
5 months ago
Just think how many more people Stalin could have murdered if he’d had access to this!
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Thought Police. Churchill warned of this in the ’45 election (a Gestapo). Much pilloried of course. Seems prescient to me. I know of a white woman (Catholic of course, never Muzzie or Black etc) who was arrested for tweets opposing the tranny agenda. Police arrested her in front of her 5 children. Other Christians arrested for silent prayers outside of Moloch’s baby-murdering shops. Starmtard’s ‘online speech bill’ will only hasten the demise of thinking and speaking. You might well be arrested for just how you look, or if someone sees that you sport a cross or some symbol they don’t like.
A diabolical situation.
There will be a terrible temptation for politicians to expand the scope of monitoring to any ‘crisis of the week’ that captures their attention. Mission creep for creeps, perhaps?
Absolutely.
Call him mad but Davis Icke warned about all of this decades ago.
The people are the nation, not the government, and particularly not the last two governments who have clearly betrayed their own people and committed treason. The only people that “pose a threat to national security” and are a “public safety risk” are the treacherous elites forcing globalist Marxist policy on the masses.
Hear, hear.
A point I have made time and again, and cannot be over-emphasised.
“analyse social media narratives”.
Another attempt to shut down debate. Some (perhaps many) people will be dissuaded from publicly voicing their opinions. Others won’t be stopped at all. But perhaps many will modify their language to be more nuanced and subtle, to go under the AI radar and avoid plod feeling their collar.
And yet, unless the government and courts become extraordinarily draconian, they will not succeed in shutting down unapproved narratives. When sites like this start producing tame and approved narratives (content and comments), then I will know that the game is up.
The game is never up. If the worst comes to the worst we will resort to the printed word. I imagine every household with a computer will have a printer / photocopier.
Oddly enough, I have been thinking the same thing myself!
“The current focus of beta testing is the influence of foreign states during elections.”
Give it a bloody rest for crying out loud.
We know the establishment consider the plebs to be utter dunces but many of us have seen through this years ago.
‘looking solely for posts “which pose a threat to national security and public safety risk”.
Given that the vast majority of “security and public safety risks” are perpetrated by the ROPers we scumbag whities have nothing to worry about unless we perhaps post some hurty words about Kneel’s mates.
Its our money, by what right do they steal our money to spy on us, to send the Police in, to censor and ruin lives so they can stay in power.
We are the most watched population in the world, and yet our Police are incapable of solving burglaries, Murders, Rapes, abductions. But they can destroy people who write or say anything against the Government or its selected priority communities.
Is this not a possible case that the Free Speech society could bring against the Government.
In what way is Two-Tier substantially different from Eric Honecker?
Our freedoms started to be restricted under Blair
Just think how many more people Stalin could have murdered if he’d had access to this!