Posted on 08/04/2019 4:26:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Federal Bureau of Investigations aims to acquire access to a “social media early alerting tool” that will help insiders proactively and reactively monitor how terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations and other domestic threats use networking platforms to further their illegal efforts, according to a request for proposal amended this week.
“With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will allow the FBI to identify relevant information from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other Social media platforms in a timely fashion,” the agency said in the RFP. “Consequently, the FBI needs near real-time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available in furtherance of its law enforcement and intelligence missions.”
Though the request was initially released on July 8, the FBI amended it this week to extend the relevant dates: The agency’s answers to vendors moved from July 25 to Aug. 7, and the proposal due date shifted from Aug. 8 to Aug. 27. Though the original proposal listed the anticipated award date as Aug. 30, it could be pushed back due to these changes.
Still, the proposal comes at a time when society is growing accustomed to the painful reality of the weaponization of social media outlets to cause harm. Earlier this year, a mass shooter in New Zealand opened fire at two mosques killing 50 people and injuring many more—he posted a 74-page manifesto and images of his weapons online ahead of the attack and livestreamed the shooting directly on Facebook Live. And the shooter who killed three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California Sunday also previously posted online about an 1890...
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Who cares as long as we can use it to imprison deplorables?
Everyone at freerepublic already has a file.
The challenge for them is to connect to the flesh and name of the members.
No challenge at all.
Get a warrant.
Hahahahahaha!
Yeah.
I know.
Of course, it is the only path to socialism.. They’ll take Christians first to set an example... then, political prisoners, probaly very few remaining after the Christian purge.
These leftist committing mass murders for fame and money.
Have we ever followed up on their famikies afterward?
“Like with a cloth?”
Yep, and stop ignoring the list they already have in their pockets.
The FBI failed to stop a number of mass shooters and terrorists they were already tracking over the past few years—Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, etc.
There was no reason to. They weren’t deplorables.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3769212/posts?page=1
Ohio gunman described himself as pro-Satan ‘leftist’ who supported Elizabeth Warren
washington times ^ | 8/4/2019 | victor morton
I think you’re not far off on that...
The Federal Bureau of Incineration is NOT to be trusted with such technology.
Given the way they protected Hillary Clinton and everyone else involved in an attempted coup in to overturn the 2016 election, and at the very same time tried to link Putin to President Trump.
I’m sorry but their name has gone to mud.
Nope. We need to track the FBI agents. They are unaccountable and above the law. They have no external control which make them the perfect target for control by rogue elements and the deep state.
The private sector is public and the public sector is secret.
This would complete the evolution if the FBI into the secret police, a real Gestapo agency.
Oh, they must be havin' a laugh .. anyone with an iQ over 75 should know that the corrupt, lying bastards have been doing exactly that since Day One of the enabling technology becoming available.
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