United States to allocate $38.5 mln to establish global archive of social media posts

The United States plans to create an archive to include 350 bn posts of social media users, Report informs citing the research reguest of the country's Navy.

By available information, Washington is ready to spend $38.5 mln to establish such an archive that will include the comments of at least 200 mln unique users from 100 countries. The archive will indicate the user's name and date of publication.

It is elaborated that the US side needs such an archive to model the evolution of language communities, understand the bases of public dynamics and new types of collective expression of views.