[kevcampb]

If you read the proposal, this is for providing automated defences against social engineering attacks - eg: phishing. It's incredibly benign.

That's not how it's presented on Elon's twitter post, certainly. The replies are just layers and layers of conspiracy theories.

[chrisco255]

That sounds quaint. Why was it awarded to Reuters, a British/foreign news organization that supposedly hires journalists to report unbiased information? What expertise would they have in preventing social engineering attacks?

[imadethis]

It was awarded to Thomson Reuters, the parent company. They do a lot of work in risk management and fraud detection, so they have a lot of expertise.

[egberts1]

How's that working so far? Millions of illegal immigration, emptying of foreign prisons into America, development of apps to help navigate illegals into their US destinations, pacifying social media of the abovea?

Thomas Reuters apparently is helping against America ... so far.

[imadethis]

Pardon? This is about how Thomson Reuters was funded by DARPA to do a study on defending against social media attacks at scale. It has nothing to do with any of the points you brought up, and I fail to see the connection.

[egberts1]

You said it.

I can only lead a horse to the watering hole.

https://github.com/egberts/immigration

[Two4]

Turn off Fox News dude - you're severely lacking perspective of your own country. Everyone outside of the US media sphere(or rather spheres - there's two) laughs at your news media and how entrenched misinformation has become.

[egberts1]

Unlike you, I make an effort to know the who, how, when, where, what, and why:

https://github.com/egberts/immigration

[Two4]

You've made a diagram showing statistics of immigration encounters, and from that you deduced that prisons are being emptied into the US? Bit of a stretch. The diagram is nice, but you're missing the point: the picture being painted for you that you're trying to prop up is false.

[chrisco255]

How come they didn't detect the fraud and abuse going on in the government?

[imadethis]

Were they hired to do fraud detection for the US government? Do you have any idea how businesses work in general? Or are you being obtuse on purpose?

Come on, man. Have some self-respect.

[jauer]

Reuters builds software for a variety of fields and maintains datasets that would be useful in identifying if, say, an email with an invoice purporting to be from a specific company aligns with the invoicing practices of that company.

It would be more accurate to compare that side of Reuters to LexisNexus, Wolters Kluwer, or perhaps Bloomberg.

[egberts1]

Apparently Experian does a far much better job giving credit scores to Americans than Thomas Reuters does against criminal immigrants.

[red-iron-pine]

Thomson Reuters is an American-Canadian company. Thompson was founded in Toronto and bought Reuters in 2008. Most of it's leadership is Canadian, and to some degree American or British.

This isn't "foreign", and it has a large presence in the US

They also have a long, long history of providing services to the USG, including a lot of efforts in busting illegal immigration via shared media databases.

[chrisco255]

Thomson Reuters is Canadian. Reuters itself is based in London. It's not American.

[Jimmc414]

I'm annoyed that I have to assert this, but I wasn't even aware of Elon Musk's tweet when I posted this. I found the entire site fascinating for entirely non-political reasons. I didn't know this information was publicly available.