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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is strange, as the FBI has solicited proposals from vendors to pull vast troves of public data from social media “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests” as @JeffHorwitz and I have reported.
wsj.com/articles/fbi-a…
As @RachelBLevinson—who has done excellent research into this area—points out, this stated view appears in clear disagreement with FBI’s written policies.
FBI’s wish list included the ability to “obtain the full social media profile of persons-of-interest and their affiliation to any organization or groups,” and to monitor activity of people in specific neighborhoods and search for key words connected to potential illegal activity.
As we note in our story, the FBI began building its capacity to monitor social media at least as far back as 2012. The FBI generally refuses to discuss its social-media monitoring programs and refused to comment for our article. wsj.com/articles/fbi-a…

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