US Special Operations Command To Pay For Social Media Surveillance Tool To Combat “Disinformation”

Accrete AI has announced that it has been awarded a contract by US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to deploy its tool called Argus Social, which is supposed to provide real time prediction of "disinformation threats from social media."

Accrete - described as a dual-purpose company, whose website declares that it provides "universally configurable, reliable, and accurate AI agents for decision automation" - announced the deal with USSOCOM in a press release.

It notes that Argus is designed to first analyze social media data (from what it refers as "open source" threats - meaning, publicly available content perceived as threat) and then make predictions based on this data.

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