The Rise and Fall of American Power in the Digital Age

A company called primer or primer ai became a contractor for the US Air Force and US Special Operations Command in 2020. In that press release it says primer will develop the first ever machine learning platform to automatically identify and assess suspected disinformation. This sort of tactic is actually quite an old one you know if anyone's involved in the peace movement they'll know about this type of tactics. The McCarthyist nonsense really goes back for decades and decades if not centuries in the United States but we are seeing a new kind of uh twinge to it  in the digital age.