Officials say the DHS has started building a warning system to gather and analyze intelligence about domestic terrorism threats from public social media posts
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyze intelligence … Tweets: @purplerain713 , @hanxfingers , @kylegriffin1 , @jgreenblattadl , @dreamweasel , and @onekade Tweets: @purplerain713 : Omg so many of us literally reported hundreds of such tweets and NOTHING was done by Twitter or anyone else. Ali Alexander literally planned 1/6 on SM. https://twitter.com/... Hanx Fingers / @hanxfingers : Government agencies that have been spying on everyone for decades are using the Capitol attack to get liberal consent for spying on everyone... https://twitter.com/... Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1 : Biden's DHS is launching a warning system to find domestic terrorism threats on public social media. The goal is to detect the sort of posts that seemed to predict the Jan. 6 Capitol attack but were missed by law enforcement. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Jonathan Greenblatt / @jgreenblattadl : The Jan. 6 insurrection was planned on the internet for anyone to see. If able to find timely information, this @DHSGov warning system would be a positive step toward ensuring law enforcement doesn't miss #extremist threats of violence in plain sight. https://www.nbcnews.com/... @dreamweasel : I don't know how the DHS could've predicted that a flock of MAGAts were planning to disrupt the January 6th certification of Biden's victory unless they'd happened to glance at Twitter at any time after the December 14th electoral vote https://twitter.com/... @onekade : Ah wonderful. Now we can look forward to stories about why DHS' $10m social media surveillance boondoggle just so happened to miss the posts from the white racist guy who told everyone who he was going to murder, when, and where. https://www.nbcnews.com/...