The Mitre Corporation is a bad actor headquartered in McLean – they've got sticky fingers in tons of pies, from DARPA projects to high-altitude high-energy projects to "population health" projects. I'm looking into them on a number of levels, and I found one really peculiar thing:
https:// hedonometer.org/index.html
It claims to measure happiness based on Twitter keywords, and shows a labeled graph of the last few years. Just seems so out-of-place, yet could lead to clues of a deeper relationship with Twatter. Mitre's a heavy hitter techwise.And a look at their board of trustees and board of executives is informative:
https:// www.mitre.org/about/leadership/executive-team
https:// www.mitre.org/about/leadership/board-of-trustees