The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a part of the military. If it is launching a project to fight dis/mis-information then isn’t that an accurate title?
It’s a research arm handing out grants. That’s very different from what the title implies, which is as if it were like any other war/operation with top active command and a ton of resources. The use of the word unleash implies there’s some strong existing momentum just being held back by an arbitrary gate.
DARPA funded the internet. Did the US unleash military to network computers? I think we could all agree that’s hyperbolic.
No, it's not accurate. It uses words aimed to give impression which is incorrect. "Unleashing military" means, in common parlance, physical attack of the armed forces, not fundamental research branch of DoD initiating a project. DARPA is a research division which initiated a lot of projects having wide non-military applications. Specifying that it is DARPA initiating the research project is a vital piece of context which changes the whole understanding of what is going on.
It's like publishing a headline saying "Elvis Presley sighted in Moscow", forgetting to specify that it's not the Elvis everybody thinks about, but some other guy that happens to have the same name, and has lived in Moscow, Arkansas, for his whole life and nothing of note happened to him ever. Classic clickbait.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a part of the military. If it is launching a project to fight dis/mis-information then isn’t that an accurate title?
It’s a research arm handing out grants. That’s very different from what the title implies, which is as if it were like any other war/operation with top active command and a ton of resources. The use of the word unleash implies there’s some strong existing momentum just being held back by an arbitrary gate.
DARPA funded the internet. Did the US unleash military to network computers? I think we could all agree that’s hyperbolic.
No, it's not accurate. It uses words aimed to give impression which is incorrect. "Unleashing military" means, in common parlance, physical attack of the armed forces, not fundamental research branch of DoD initiating a project. DARPA is a research division which initiated a lot of projects having wide non-military applications. Specifying that it is DARPA initiating the research project is a vital piece of context which changes the whole understanding of what is going on.
It's like publishing a headline saying "Elvis Presley sighted in Moscow", forgetting to specify that it's not the Elvis everybody thinks about, but some other guy that happens to have the same name, and has lived in Moscow, Arkansas, for his whole life and nothing of note happened to him ever. Classic clickbait.