Such analytics are now beginning for software supply chains, thanks to a Presidential Executive Order. As warfare spreads from kinetic to cyber to psychological, we will need more tooling to keep pace with the analytical descendants of Cambridge Analytica. Social discourse can be mined in real time to identify high-leverage, transient gaps in narratives, to influence far-reaching real world policy.

Individual humans, parsing text for meaning, have an uphill journey.

TODO: create Streisand bot to extract downvoted comments from HN, differentiate between legitimate vs targeted downvotes, then republish to an audience for critical response on any valid points, i.e. use the infrastructure and human resources of would-be censors, to generate new signals.