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Pentagon’s Secret Service Trawls Social Media for Mean Tweets About Generals

"The document cites access to Twitter’s “firehose,” which would grant the Army the ability to search public tweets and Twitter users without restriction, as well as analysis of 4Chan, Reddit, YouTube, and Vkontakte, a Facebook knockoff popular in Russia. Internet chat platforms like Discord and Telegram will also be scoured for the purpose of “identifying counterterrorism and counter-extremism and radicalization,” though it’s unclear what exactly those terms mean here."

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/17/army-surveillance-social-media/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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