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This a a grant program running by DARPA called Semantic Forensics. [1]

The Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program will develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets (text, audio, image, video) to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.

The primary use case for this is election security, but more generally being able to detect and defend against an adversary trying to seed political discord with fake accounts, or fake news, so-called "deep fakes", etc.

[1] - https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppI...

By "unleashing the military" they mean a DARPA research program.

Straight to the top of HN!

Tangentially related: what's the name for the approach where you analyze word choices and sentence structure in order to fingerprint a person?

Forensic linguistics? This technique was invented during the manhunt for the Unabomber. Features in the Netflix series of the same name.

Forensic linguistics or linguistic fingerprinting.

Stylometry?

That's the one, thanks!

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