Pentagon Awards AI Company Contract to Monitor, Neutralize ‘Viral Disinformation’

Pentagon Awards AI Company Contract to Monitor And Neutralize Real Time “Disinformation” Online.

Clint Watts, president of Miburo, a research firm that tracks foreign disinformation operations, works at his desktop at company headquarters in New York on March 15, 2022. Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo

The Department of Defense has awarded a contract to an AI firm to deploy software that can predict and neutralize so-called “disinformation” threats on social media platforms.

New York-based artificial intelligence company Accrete AI, announced the Pentagon award in an Aug. 29 press statement.