A.I. ASTROTURFING SHILLS IN 2020
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The information contained in this infographic is only the start of the rabbit hole, I have started to gather intel on the newest batch of agitators. In the past we dealt with front companies like Shareblue, Correct The Record(CTR) and others. These were small companies created for Democratic Party astroturfing manned by small time interns. Of course in 2020 everything is being turned up to 11. Now we are dealing With a multi-headed hydra of unprecedented proportions.
I don't have time to fully get into the technicals but the main idea this go around is to incorporate AI. Language processing based off the work of Adam L Berger ( https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100228703) and others using BERT style sentence level propaganda detection (https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-5022.pdf) While were still not sure at the level of hardware available things tike the Megaton LM (512gpu pod) are extremely sophisticated (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf#page=13) Its is doubtful they are on that level, DARPA has already disavowed (https://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1257360714743906306?refsrc=twsrc%5Etfw), but who knows.
The list of players in this round is much larger. The main company seems to be HigherGroundLabs, they are a parent company for many smaller startup fronts. Some very interesting people involved there such as Andrew McLaughlin former Deputy CTO of the US, CEO of DIGG, senior TumMr exec, head of global policy at GOGGLE among other things (https://icannwiki.org/Andrew McLaughlin) Shomik Dutta - White House Council SA during Obama era, Advisor to FCC (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8283) Julius Genachowski Former FCC chairman, Carlyle Group Member (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski, Deval Patrick — Former Gov of Mass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deval_Patrick) Nellwyn Thomas — CTO/Analytic officer for the DNC. Tom Wheeler Former FCC chairman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler)
One of those small companies is Main Street One founded by self proclaimed social media guru Curtis Hougland - Progressive society is losing the information war online. The right propagates Or the volume of digital content, and these narratives are 5x more likely to tend and 70% more coordinated. Ryan Davis — (https://twitter.com/RyanNewYork) And Richard Painter - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Painter) misspelled and never pictured on site. Thru the use of MainStreet they setup another DNC PAC called Defeat Disinfo.
We are fairly tight on info for Defeat Disinfo currently no monies have been disclosed to the FEC but a contradictory article might say otherwise (https://stripes.com/news/us/nahative-seeks-to-challenge-trump-s-ontine-megaphone-1.628186/) Stephanie Berger- former Finance Director for the Democratic National Convention (https://bhstrategiesllc.com/who_we_are.php). Andrew Tobias —(https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tobias)