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Re:U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to under... by chippy on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:20AM (#20009214)
Right, thats about when I also heard pitches about the same. Perhaps social media has changed now. I certainly use it differently. Or perhaps the US Military takes a decade to get research like this going?
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Re:U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to under... by dmoy on Saturday May 25, 2019 @11:53AM (#20009664)
Probably it's ongoing in defense research, just usually not much comes of it and it's not published a lot. I did something tangentially like this if you squint at it the right way, maybe 10-12 years ago, for some defense research grant. It would shock me if they didn't have a dozen other parallel grants going with other companies at the same time, and more since then.
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