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US Homeland Security Planning Database to Track Journalists, Monitor ‘Sentiment’

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https://sputniknews.com/news/201804...urity-Planning-Database-to-Track-Journalists/

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in search of a contractor to build a database and dashboard to monitor hundreds of thousands of news organizations and journalists - and even to determine their “sentiment.”

An April 3 contract listing on a government-run federal business opportunities website seeks "media monitoring services" for the DHS. Already, at least seven companies have applied for the DHS contract. It is unclear how much the contract pays.
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Somehow this reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 & Winston Smith working at his position in the Ministry of Truth. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Smith

Orwell missed the date in his title by a few years.
 
https://sputniknews.com/news/201804...urity-Planning-Database-to-Track-Journalists/

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in search of a contractor to build a database and dashboard to monitor hundreds of thousands of news organizations and journalists - and even to determine their “sentiment.”

An April 3 contract listing on a government-run federal business opportunities website seeks "media monitoring services" for the DHS. Already, at least seven companies have applied for the DHS contract. It is unclear how much the contract pays.
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Somehow this reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 & Winston Smith working at his position in the Ministry of Truth. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Smith

Orwell missed the date in his title by a few years.

I used to joke that they were waiting until after 1984 so nobody would suspect them when they went for it.
Then I lived through the last thirty years and its not so funny anymore.
 
Sputnik is a source I would never link to.....isn't it under Putin/Trump influence?
Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and ...

RollingStone.com-Apr 2, 2018

Through his bushy mustache, Bolton praised Putin's autocratic country as a "force for democracy in the world," and encouraged the Russian activists. "Good luck on your journey," he said, "into a new century of freedom." Torshin feted Butina, calling her "very young and talented. She is the youngest ...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dhs-compile-database-journalists-bloggers/
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The CT subforum is a little further down the main page.
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I would really like to know why Sputnik News is the new "crack cocaine" of Debate Politics.
Hey, there may very well be a ton of truth in the story. I am not going to accuse Sputnik of publishing BS.
I just don't intend to let them have my eyeballs, I'm sure that other media outlets are perfectly capable of covering this story.

Oh LOOKY!! Here's Forbes Magazine!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellefabio/2018/04/06/department-of-homeland-security-compiling-database-of-journalists-and-media-influencers

Sorry guys, it's absolutely your right to keep pushing Sputnik News all you like, it's a free country.
But I intend to keep pushing back each and every time you promote the Mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin, and I will continue to offer alternative examples so that DP members will get the fact that they don't need to enrich and sustain a Russian agitprop/psyop operation to get information.
 

So you doubt the accuracy of this report? This is typical of the stuff that DHS is interested in: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Arrival and Departure Information System (ADIS) contains biographic information, biometric indicators, and encounter data consolidated from various systems from DHS and the Department of State (DOS).May 4, 2017 Who knows what they are up to?
 
So you doubt the accuracy of this report? This is typical of the stuff that DHS is interested in: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Arrival and Departure Information System (ADIS) contains biographic information, biometric indicators, and encounter data consolidated from various systems from DHS and the Department of State (DOS).May 4, 2017 Who knows what they are up to?

CT level speculation - seeing an apple tree and using that as evidence to declare that bananas are in season; or using welding glasses to try to describe the smell of the color nine.
 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michel...urnalists-and-media-influencers/#5562ec396121

Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And 'Media Influencers'

In today’s installment of "I’m Not Terrified, You Are," Bloomberg Law reports on a FedBizOpps.gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the relatively benign-sounding subject, “Media Monitoring Services.”

The details of the attached Request for Information, however, outline a plan to gather and monitor the public activities of media professionals and influencers and are enough to cause nightmares of constitutional proportions, particularly as the freedom of the press is under attack worldwide.
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So Sputnik got it right again.
 
https://sputniknews.com/news/201804...urity-Planning-Database-to-Track-Journalists/

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in search of a contractor to build a database and dashboard to monitor hundreds of thousands of news organizations and journalists - and even to determine their “sentiment.”

An April 3 contract listing on a government-run federal business opportunities website seeks "media monitoring services" for the DHS. Already, at least seven companies have applied for the DHS contract. It is unclear how much the contract pays.
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Somehow this reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 & Winston Smith working at his position in the Ministry of Truth. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Smith

Orwell missed the date in his title by a few years.

December 2016 - "WASHINGTON — If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.

... Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.

I experienced this pressure firsthand when the administration tried to compel me to testify to reveal my confidential sources in a criminal leak investigation. The Justice Department finally relented — even though it had already won a seven-year court battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court to force me to testify — most likely because they feared the negative publicity that would come from sending a New York Times reporter to jail. ..."


https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/...ld-trump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html


Nothing unprecedented here ... thanks to Obama ... again ... (grin).
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homela...g-services-for-journalists-media-influencers/

Homeland Security to compile database of journalists, media influencers

The Department of Homeland Security posted a contract request this week for "Media Monitoring Services," which will compile a database of hundreds of thousands of journalists, bloggers and "media influencers" for the federal government. After an outcry on social media, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman tweeted "this is nothing more than the standard practice of monitoring current events in the media."

The work request from DHS seeks a firm that has the ability to monitor up to 290,000 global news sources; ability to track media coverage in up to 100 languages and the ability to "track online, print, broadcast, cable, radio, trade and industry publications, local sources, national/international outlets, traditional news sources, and social media."
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I believe the current Govermentese name for this sort of thing is 'open source information.' There already is an Open Source Information System (OSIS) located on the Washington Beltway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Information_System.
 
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