AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook

AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook

news.yahoo.com

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.

At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.

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This is well known by many but something seems a bit different about this these days. Real time analysis or the post to reshape a conversation in an instant.

Who needs the Patriot Act when social Media exists and the mass sheep post anything and everything about themselves seeking attention and in some cases th attention of Big Brother.

news.yahoo.com
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Now people should just spam there twitters and facebooks with disinformation to keep them busy with nonsense.

Yup, not exactly news and the fact that the CIA reads my Facebook posts hasn't stopped me from limiting what I say on there. I shouldn't have to live in fear from a foreign intelligence organization, and if they do make a move on me then that's pretty much the definition of terrorism, isn't it? I am a civilian, afterall.

wasnt this already posted today?

indeed it was

link

most people don't know the CIA is monitoring

now to see that the CIA is open to admitting it..let alone likely having the ability to be a troll on all these sites to change the conversation...in the direction they want, seems very big brother to me

Well crap close the thread.

Sorry.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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It was only after joining ATS that I realized this wasn't just fear mongering and that it wasn't "in the future", a one-day we will be followed everywhere and all of the time.

At first I was digging deep for information on how to stay under the radar but that hole began to cave in on me, lol.
It angered me and now I'm not so afraid of the government lurkers. They can live their life through us
(not to mention they can kiss my ass!)

I honestly don't see how anyone can live under the radar, it's impossible.

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most people don't know the CIA is monitoring

now to see that the CIA is open to admitting it..let alone likely having the ability to be a troll on all these sites to change the conversation...in the direction they want, seems very big brother to me

It shouldn't surprise you one bit. In fact, you should have been surprised if they hadn't been monitoring.

I mean, social networks where people willingly bare their souls for the world to see. I mean, it's not illegal for you or I to do it; why should it be illegal for them to do it?

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All of these sources, yahoo ABC seem to have removed these articles. I have been wanting to read up on it but I'm striking out so far.

Found this part to be awesomely hilarious:

"When the president gave his speech addressing Mideast issues a few weeks after the raid, the tweet response over the next 24 hours came in negative from Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, the Persian Gulf and Israel, too, with speakers of Arabic and Turkic tweets charging that Obama favored Israel, and Hebrew tweets denouncing the speech as pro-Arab."

I like how the response is simply characterized as "negative "..more like.. increasing numbers of serious thinking adults, world wide, no longer lend credibility that guy who calls himself president.

Facetweets and spacebook are there for the taking, they'd be incompetent shadowy overlords to ignore such a resource.