{"id":8429,"date":"2011-11-04T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/cia-tracks-twitter-and-facebook\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T22:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T22:31:19","slug":"cia-tracks-twitter-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/cia-tracks-twitter-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8429 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/cia-tracks-twitter-and-facebook\/attachment\/8430\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_lu5917qFwC1qedj2ho1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_lu5917qFwC1qedj2ho1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_lu5917qFwC1qedj2ho1_500.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurejournalismproject.org\/post\/12328812734\/cia-tracks-twitter-and-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">futurejournalismproject<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"headline\">AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>McLEAN, Va. (AP) \u2014 In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets \u2014 up to 5 million a day.<\/p>\n<p>At the agency\u2019s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the \u201cvengeful librarians\u201d also pores over\u00a0Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms \u2014 anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.<\/p>\n<p>From Arabic to Mandarin Chinese, from an angry tweet to a thoughtful blog, the analysts gather the information, often in native tongue. They cross-reference it with the local newspaper or a clandestinely intercepted phone conversation. From there, they build a picture sought by the highest levels at the White House, giving a real-time peek, for example, at the mood of a region after the Navy SEAL raid that killed\u00a0Osama bin Laden\u00a0or perhaps a prediction of which Mideast nation seems ripe for revolt.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they saw the uprising in\u00a0Egypt\u00a0coming; they just didn\u2019t know exactly when revolution might hit, said the center\u2019s director, Doug Naquin.<\/p>\n<p>The center already had \u201cpredicted that\u00a0social media\u00a0in places like Egypt could be a game-changer and a threat to the regime,\u201d he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press at the center. CIA officials said it was the first such visit by a reporter the agency has ever granted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>read the rest of the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo! News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not surprising. What I want to know is, does the CIA rank people like Klout does?<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s my &ldquo;CIA-Of-Interest&rdquo; Score? And a LOWER number would be better. The article suggests they are only monitoring sentiment, but you have to figure they&rsquo;re tracking specific people, too. And unlike Klout, the CIA is connecting the dots using wiretaps. Thanks goodness, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>futurejournalismproject: AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook McLEAN, Va. (AP) \u2014 In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets \u2014 up to 5 million a day. At the agency\u2019s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the \u201cvengeful librarians\u201d also pores over\u00a0Facebook, newspapers, TV news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2599,1821],"class_list":["post-8429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-klout","tag-social-media","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8431,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}