Matching tweets to ZIP codes can spotlight hot spots of vaccine hesitancy

Tired:

> Xi also wants to use AI’s awesome analytical powers to push China to the cutting edge of surveillance. He wants to build an all-seeing digital system of social control, patrolled by precog algorithms that identify potential dissenters in real time [1]

Inspired:

> In the future, public health officials could use machine learning for early detection of vaccine hesitancy on social media. Then they could use algorithms to automatically distribute targeted information and go on the offense against the spread of health-related misinformation.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-a...

This comes off as threatening to personal freedoms. Today they're doing something like this because of COVID, but how long before they start doing this for areas full of people saying things that the government just doesn't like?