21.10.2014 - 23:51 [ The Washington Post ]

The government wants to study ‘social pollution’ on Twitter

If you take to Twitter to express your views on a hot-button issue, does the government have an interest in deciding whether you are spreading “misinformation’’? If you tweet your support for a candidate in the November elections, should taxpayer money be used to monitor your speech and evaluate your “partisanship’’?