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Source: Matt Taibbi for Racket News

In the name of trying to protect the country, the Trump administration is advertising to the world its misunderstanding of a core American idea.

The reported State Department plan to use AI to scour social media for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the United States” is just an inverse of Biden-era plans to have the FBI and DHS work with Internet platforms to “to share and receive domestic violent extremism threat-related information.”