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The UK Company Subjecting Your Social Media Posts To State Surveillance‼️

A UK government-funded AI firm based in an unassuming industrial estate in Yorkshire,England,has been engaged in state surveillance,monitoring the social media posts of citizens‼️🙏👇

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Logically, the firm in question, has earned over £1.2 million (1.49 million USD) from government contracts to identify and analyze “disinformation” and “misinformation” spread across social media‼️🙏👇

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The AI company was started by Lyric Jain,a27-year-old Cambridge engineering graduate,who launched the technology first during Indian elections.With one of the largest dedicated fact-checking teams globally, -🙏👇

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- the company sifts through material from hundreds of thousands of media sources and all public posts on major social media platforms‼️

Logically has bagged lucrative deals,including a £1.2million(1.49 million USD)contract with the Department for Culture,Media & Sport -🙏👇

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-(DCMS)and another worth up to £1.4million(1.7 million uSD) with DepartmentOfHealth & SocialCare to monitor threats to high-profile vax service individuals,TheTelegraph reported. Its client list includes US federal agencies,the Indian electoral commission,TikTok& Facebook🙏👇

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While Logically asserts that it does not share evidence collected for the UK Government with Facebook, this partnership has ignited concerns among freedom of speech campaigners🙏👇

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The company’s responsibilities grew over time,aiding in building comprehensive picture of potentially harmful mis&disinformation.Documents revealed it produced regular “Covid-19 Mis/Disinformation Platform Terms of Service Reports”for the Counter-disinformation Unit -🙏👇

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– a secretive operation within the DCMS‼️

A public document titled “Covid-19 Disinformation in the UK” disclosed Logically’s perspective, referring to “anti-lockdown” and “anti-Covid-19 vax sentiment”, -🙏👇

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- along with hashtags “#sackvallance” and “#sackwhitty” as evidence of “a strong disdain for expert advice.”‼️‼️☝️🤔🙏👇👇
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