Note mention of “The Cortex”, Annalect, Sparks & Honey, and DARPA
Cortex MAY be the Boston startup that provides an AI engine for FB, FBM. TBD.
Q pointed this direction via House, Senate, and NDAA bills that authorized funding to establish a ‘Center for Research and Analysis…’ under State Dept.
State renamed this function as “Global Engagement Center” with around 80 people and a budget north of $100M authorized.
But the GEC never seemed to get off the ground. State never obligated the funds, so the money reverted back to DoD and the original sources in both 2017 and 2018.
Subsequently, in we learn of a similar effort led by DOJ (LL), DARPA, C_A, and WH staff that began in 2015 or 2016. The article below describes the meeting that took place in FEB 2016.
This is where we first learn about coordination between Justice, IC, DARPA, with the top private sector social media companies and Madison Avenue Marketing and Advertising firms.
DARPA and IRPA frequently help develop core tech for DoD and IC, then they move it to private sector for commercialization. This is the cradle of the Internet, www, search engine tech, and social media, so this is BAU for DARPA.
Article mentions the importance of ensuring that the program is privately funded and not part of a USG funded program. Mentions looking for a Non-profit 501(c) entity to manage contributions and investments in the program. Why is 501(c) status important? Beyond tax advantages.
Article:
[[[ The Department of Defense is working with Sparks & Honey to examine the growth of terrorism and extremism online and gather cultural insights to help counter those initiatives.
To gather insights for the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sparks & Honey is implementing The Cortex strategy model, which it helped build in partnership with Annalect for Omnicom's dedicated McDonald's agency, We Are Unlimited.
The Cortex examines human behaviors and social sciences in real time and tries to understand "what drives someone to become radicalized," said Terry Young, CEO of Sparks & Honey. He added that the Omnicom shop combines its social science and cultural expertise with DARPA's "great data science minds."
While Mr. Young can't go into detail about the agency's findings since they're "highly confidential," he said the objective is to "create a mechanism to understand human behavior, monitor that behavior and translate it."
Sparks & Honey is also working with the Defense Department on other efforts around "how to prevent technological surprises for the U.S. government," which is one of the main goals of DARPA.
Mr. Young said the work tied to The Cortex will soon expand for a wide array of companies across Omnicom in both marketing and policy and government issues.
Last February, a group of ad and technology executives met with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington D.C. to come up with a plan to counter extremist propaganda from the Islamic State. The gathering was dubbed The Madison Valleywood Project and was attended by Twitter, Facebook and several major creative agencies. ]]]
Observations and comments:
Former DARPA Director left to work at FB, setting up Building 8 that Q has mentioned multiple times. She has also spent time at Goog. She is very plugged-into Silicon Valley and Wall St.
Q tells us that FB captures EVERYTHING and implies that the collection cannot be turned off by users if you have a FB app installed vs using browser access.
Q mentions Building 8, for DARPA follow-on project work and skunkworks technologies.
Q repeats “CHINA-CHINA-CHINA” after mentions of FB and Building 8 >>> all of your FB acquired raw data is being sent to China, along with AI enhancements that identifies individuals and builds a very deep profile that may be used as a control file for blackmail.
What did State, Justice, WH, and IC know and when?
Part of the plan or coincidence?
Why did State, under Kerry, fail to get GEC off the ground? Dig.
for the U.S. government," which is one of the main goals of DARPA.
Mr. Young said the work tied to The Cortex will soon expand for a wide array of companies across Omnicom in both marketing and policy and government issues.
Last February, a group of ad and technology executives met with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington D.C. to come up with a plan to counter extremist propaganda from the Islamic State. The gathering was dubbed The Madison Valleywood Project and was attended by Twitter, Facebook and several major creative agencies.