NBC New York

As social media play increasingly large roles in fomenting unrest in countries like Egypt and Iran, the military wants systems to be able to detect and track the spread of ideas both quickly and on a broad scale. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting innovative proposals to help build what would be, at its most basic level, an Internet meme tracker.

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The Pentagon is looking for social media networkers to help them both find and shape the “action” going on around the world. They’re accepting proposals for those techies who also have an interest in fighting global terrorism and protecting the U.S. 

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[NYT, via theatlantic]

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