Secret Service seeking social media sarcasm detector

Published June 3, 2014 6:09pm ET



Do you fear the government misinterpreting your tweets as threats simply because of your sarcasm? (Full disclosure: That may or may not refer to me.)

Well, fear no more, because the Secret Service is looking for software that would be able to “detect sarcasm and false positives” on social media.

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