Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC)*
Abstract
*Formerly Crowd-Sourced Analytics The Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program will develop techniques to detect, classify, measure and track the formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts (memes) in social media. This will provide warfighters and intelligence analysts with indications and warnings of adversary efforts to propagate purposefully deceptive messaging and misinformation. Social media creates vulnerabilities that can be exploited to harm U.S. interests and threaten national security and have become a key operating environment for a broad range of extremists. SMISC will develop technology and a new supporting foundational science of social networks that will enable warfighters to defend against malevolent use of social media and to counter extremist influence operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- f666d2dc01ede60106a39f4268351bc8