A note here that SNAP at Stanford is funded by NSF grants through DARPA SMISC, which is a research group in the DoD looking to learn how to get better at influe

A note here that SNAP at Stanford is funded by NSF grants through DARPA SMISC, which is a research group in the DoD looking to learn how to get better at influencing social media groups online for propaganda. (Strategic Communication is the DoD term, well one of them, for propaganda) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-ne... https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=972cbc835c3702e9758aedcf032fb4ec&tab=core&_cview=1 https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=972cbc8...