Lee Fang testified about Moderna's reestablishment of censorship efforts with the help of "Talk Walker" and collaboration with the Public Goods project. "Logically A.I.," a British company, utilizes A.I. software to suppress speech deemed as misinformation on social media, potentially impacting the 2024 election. #TwitterFiles exposed the non-profit's role in stifling free speech.
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JUST NOW: Lee Fang testifies on how Moderna relaunched their censorship efforts last summer using the A.I. intelligence firm “Talk Walker” and also partnered with the Public Goods project again—the non-profit uncovered in the #TwitterFiles that stifles free speech.
“Logically A.I.” a British company that uses A.I. intelligence software to automatically suppress any speech it deems as misinformation on social media—and is “poised to shape the outcome of the 2024 election.”
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Moderna collaborated with Talkwalker, an AI firm, to monitor vaccine discussions on various platforms. The report highlights instances of government and corporate interference in free speech, including Logically, a UK-based AI company. Logically, in partnership with Facebook, suppressed and labeled content they deemed as misinformation. The speaker also mentions their extensive research on censorship and surveillance, covering animal rights and labor union activists. They further discuss private contractors who initially spied for the FBI and now employ AI to monitor conservative anti-vaccine activists. The speaker concludes by mentioning the organized suppression of peaceful speech by pro-Palestinian activists.
Speaker 0: I reported that Moderna relaunched these efforts to influence vaccine discourse last summer, again, working with public good projects. Moderna employed the services of the artificial intelligence firm Talkwalker to monitor vaccine related conversations across 150,000,000 websites, including social media in gaming platforms like Steam. There are many other examples in my reporting beyond the Twitter files and Moderna documents that show overreach government and corporate interest to stifle free speech. Last month, I revealed documents on the activities of Logically, a British artificial intelligence firm that is poised to shape the 2024 election. It is important to underscore why the American public should be aware of this firm.
Logically, previously had contracts in the United Kingdom to combat misinformation during the pandemic. But like many other firms of this nature, they instead surveilled legitimate forms of speech, including thoughtful concerns about pandemic lockdowns. Logically boasted of a special partnership with Facebook to automatically suppress and label any content they deemed as misinformation, giving the company immense influence over content moderation decisions. In my official written remarks, my testimony, I go into much greater detail about my record on these issues, writing on censorship and surveillance of animal rights activists and labor union activists. I profiled the various private contractors that began by spying on behalf of the FBI during the war on terror that now utilize artificial intelligence to spy on conservative anti vaccine mandate activists.
More recently, I've reported on organized suppression of peaceful speech by pro Palestinian activists. I
