Archive for May 2020

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract by the Office of Naval Research to develop a web-based tool and app for detecting Twitter “bot” accounts. Bots are synthetic accounts designed to mimic human behavior and influence opinion on social media, often by spreading “fake news” and other forms of misinformation. To combat this problem, Kairos…

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new methods for detecting group-level cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon wherein a person or community holds two or more beliefs that are in conflict. Cognitive dissonance may be especially pronounced during periods of rapid societal…