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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/22/ai-social-media-dsit-disinformation-trump-vance-elon-musk/
The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action”.
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.
https://archive.ph/eDMcj
The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action”.
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.
https://archive.ph/eDMcj