Media curiously silent on “Truthy”

◼ Where is the outrage over our government spending one million of our taxpayer dollars being spent on a project that would completely undermine free speech?! - HotAir

It’s been a couple of days since the Washington Free Beacon’s Elizabeth Harrington first reported on the three-year-old federal grant from the National Science Foundation for the “Truthy” database, and … not much else has happened. Blogs have picked it up, including our own Mary Katharine, and Reason’s Bobby Soave did a good job of highlighting its inherent contradictions. Twitchy has collated a number of tongue-in-cheek attempts to kick-start Truthy. Other than that, the national media appears to have gone radio silent on this latest project; according to a Bing news search this morning, no national outlet has yet picked up the story from WFB....

But don’t worry … you’ll love Big Brother! They promise not to make that a “suspicious meme,” too.

◼ Why are the Feds monitoring "hate speech"? And who decides what that is... - IJ Review

So if there’s a “suspicious tweet,” it will be flagged and tracked. What happens when people disagree on what constitutes “hate speech” and “misinformation?”

Also, what happens to the database - which is funded by taxpayer dollars - and who will have control of it?