The U.S. military is taking aim at social media as a starting place to pool information from platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The purpose is to gain intelligence into potential worldwide conflicts, political instability and more. For that reason, the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $42 million budget to pursue developing a strategy and funding to anyone who can think of ways to assist the military in analyzing social media, according to the New York Times.< [...]

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