Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, discussed the government and military’s alleged role in driving censorship on social media platforms by investing in AI technology.
At the National Conservatism Conference on July 9, Benz addressed how the American censorship enterprise got its start and how the government began investing in natural language processing, a new AI-powered technology to censor entire “narratives” online. Specifically, Benz said that censorship mechanisms can be traced to the Obama administration’s efforts to counter terrorist groups in 2014.
“ISIS was said to be recruiting on Twitter, and so the military developed a technology called Natural Language Processing, pouring tens of millions of dollars into this AI technique to be able to determine all the words you say on the internet, everything you…
