Blue State Hired AI Company To Track Election ‘Misinformation.’ It Routinely Flagged Conservative Opinions

Oregon’s Secretary of State recruited an artificial intelligence firm to monitor social media for “threats” to election security as part of a program that frequently flagged conservative opinions, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Throughout the 2022 midterm election cycle, the firm Logically AI sent state officials weekly “misinformation” reports that would routinely flag posts from conservatives on a variety of hot-button issues, including mail-in ballots, voter ID and “dark money” in elections, according to slides reviewed by the DCNF. Now, the Secretary of State’s office is looking to re-hire Logically AI to monitor social media chatter during the 2024 election cycle — a move that faces stiff resistance from state Republicans, voters and even talk show hosts.

“It’s not the role of the state to be the arbiter of truth and to suppress speech that they disagree with,” said Republican Oregon State Representative Ed Diehl, who obtained hundreds of internal documents on the state’s social media monitoring program through a public records request. He shared those documents with the DCNF.