Keeping and Eye on "Media Influencers"

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Keeping and Eye on "Media Influencers"

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Not illegal and probably unavoidable, but still extremely spooky.

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The DHS’s “Media Monitoring” plan, which was first reported by FedBizOpps.gov, would give the contracting company “24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.” in order to “identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event.”

The database would be designed to monitor the public activities of media members and influencers by “location, beat and influencers,” the document says.

The chosen contractor should be able to “present contact details and any other information that could be relevant including publications this influencer writes for, and an overview of the previous coverage published by the influencer.”

Also, the contractor would have access to a password protected, mobile app that provides an “overview of search results in terms of online articles and social media conversations,” in several different languages such as Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/homel ... fluencers/
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As a FedGov procurement expert, I had to laugh at the passage, "which was first reported by FedBizOpps.gov". FBO is not a media outlet. :lol: It's the required single Government solicitation point for all contracts over $25k. It doesn't have "reporters".

As far as the article itself, that whole ship sailed almost 20 years ago when we decided to have a cabinet branch called "Homeland Security". It doesn't get much more Orwellian than that.
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I suspect we have Janet Napolireno to thank for this and it was designed to monitor the Spanoses and Alex Jonses and not your Glenn Greenwalds and Young Turks.
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Is this ultimately targeting "sources" (a.k.a leakers)?
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Pwns wrote:I suspect we have Janet Napolireno to thank for this and it was designed to monitor the Spanoses and Alex Jonses and not your Glenn Greenwalds and Young Turks.
Neither of which are well-liked by estaishment Dems.
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93henfan wrote:
As far as the article itself, that whole ship sailed almost 20 years ago when we decided to have a cabinet branch called "Homeland Security". It doesn't get much more Orwellian than that.
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