The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to track the vast networks of journalists, bloggers and other "media influencers" through a massive, searchable database that will allow them to monitor "any and all" trends in real time, according to a publicly posted job listing.
Apparently the NSA doesn't share their toys with DHS...
The DHS "Media Monitoring" initiative is currently seeking a contractor who can provide DHS with the ability to track over 290,000 global news sources in more than 100 languages - including online, print, bradcast, cable, radio, trade and industry publications, traditional news sources and social media platforms.
“Services shall provide media comparison tools, design and rebranding tools, communication tools, and the ability to identify top media influencers,” according to the job call, in order to help DHS agencies fulfill "a critical need to incorporate these functions into their programs in order to better reach federal, state, local, tribal, and private partners."
The department's "Statement of Work for Media Monitoring Services" requires the following:
Online & Social Media Monitoring
Ability to track global online sources for coverage relevant to Washington and the six media hubs:
• Ability to track > 290,000 global news sources
• Ability to track online, print, broadcast, cable, radio, trade and industry publications, local sources, national/international outlets, traditional news sources, and social media
• Ability to track media coverage in > 100 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Translation function to instantly translate these articles to English.
• Ability to create up to 20 searches with each unlimited keywords
• Unlimited coverage per search (no cap on coverage)
• Ability to change the searches at keywords at any given time
• Ability to create unlimited data tracking, statistical breakdown, and graphical analyses on any coverage on an ad-hoc basis
Database of journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers, etc.
The chosen contractor must be able to develop a "password protected, media influencer database" which can perform searches in various languages, and present contact details and any other information that could be relevat, including publications that this influencer writes for, and an overview of the previous cvoverage published by the media influencer."
Media Intelligence and Benchmarking Dashboard Platform
The vendor must provide a specialized "Dashboard" for DHS to use which will provide them with a specialized search engine, real time monitoring, analysis and benchmark of media coverage (how viral something is going, for example), geographical spread, and top influencers.
24/7 Access to a password protected, online platform for users to access:
• Overview of search results in terms of online articles and social media conversations
• Customized and Interactive Dashboard that provide real-time monitoring, analysis, and benchmark of media coverage.
• Ability to analyze the media coverage in terms of content, volume, sentiment, geographical spread, top publications, media channels, reach, AVE, top posters, influencers, languages, momentum, circulation.
• Ability to select time-period of analysis: per day, week, month, and selected dates
• Ability to build media lists based on beat, location, outlet type/size, and journalist role
• Automated weekly overview of these dashboards sent via email
Mobile App
DHS also requires access to a "password protected, mobile app" allowing access to all of the collected metrics and monitoring information.
No word on whether DHS has commissioned a database of MSM connections to establishment politicians, but we're sure that's on its way.
DHS calls critics "conspiracy theorists"
In response to what many suggest are Orwellian monitoring of media influencers, DHS Press Secretary Tyler Houlton issued a response on Friday which justifies the program's legitimacy and alleges that the project's goals are "standard practice."
"Any suggestion otherwise is fit for tinfoil hat-wearing, black-helicopter conspiracy theorists," added Houlton.
Despite what some reporters may suggest, this is nothing more than the standard practice of monitoring current events in the media. Any suggestion otherwise is fit for tin foil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists. https://t.co/XGgFFH3Ppl
— Tyler Q. Houlton (@SpoxDHS) April 6, 2018
Absent blindly trusting Houlton, we've been given no indication as to how the Trump administration - or future administrations, might use the massive tracking database. The Bloomberg article points to the Senate's recent interest in designating Al Jazeera as a foreign agent " because it “often directly undermines” U.S. interests with favorable coverage of Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria," however we're sure the U.S. government could monitor specific platforms-of-interest without a massive database of every outlet's past and present body of work.
DHS is so hungry for information about the media it just Goebbels it up
— Former FSO (@FormerFSO) April 6, 2018
Comments
Oceania has always been at war with East Asia...
They don't do this already?
In reply to Oceania has always been at… by JoeTurner
That's right, ZH, all your comments are belong to us!
(Note to self: Do Not criticize the benevolent, all-seeing, all knowing, all-dancing crap of DC, Jew York, London, or Tel Aviv)
In reply to They don't do this already? by vortmax
of course they fucking do!
all that is different
is now they are making
it culturally acceptable
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keep circling those wagons around trump
keep circling
#maga
In reply to That by Croesus
We have no culture.
- - - - - - - - - - -
Keep jacking your dick while you look in the mirror and try to swallow your own emission.
In reply to of course they do… by Bes
Desired Tool is already on a FB pull down.
Select Users, then Scrapes, then desired filters.
No need to reinvent wheel on this.
In reply to We have no culture. by SethPoor
Hell, Obozo already did that. Just ask Sharyl Attkisson.
In reply to Tool is already on a FB pull… by BuddyEffed
This is about stifling dissent by making it known that we are monitoring and recording everything you say. The internet must be silenced.
"Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law"
In reply to Hell, Obozo already did that… by wee-weed up
Hey! Black helicopters are real! I know I heard about them on the Alex Jones show!
In reply to This is about stifling… by SWRichmond
Ive said it before . . . when they come for me, better bring an infantry company with an armored detachment.
In reply to This is about stifling… by SWRichmond
All the .gov does is to keep us SAFE...
In reply to Tool is already on a FB pull… by BuddyEffed
Wow SethPoor, what an extraordinary suggestion.
Who thinks of stuff like that? Sounds like you've had some practice, particularly in front of the mirror.
Sad.
In reply to We have no culture. by SethPoor
But Wait! Doesn't that mean that they'll also now need to establish an overseer database agency to TRACK THE TRACKERS?
Or am I missing something here?
In reply to of course they do… by Bes
Maybe, they could hire Al Gore to oversee the trackers. Oh, that’s right: Al Gore used to own a stake in Al Jazeera. That would make him a foreign agent, right?
In reply to But doesn't that mean that… by DillyDilly
Do as I say, not as I do... besides, all these OWO puppets are exceptionally expendable, so let them enjoy the party before it ends. Meanwhile the BS continues... one op after the next, and since this latest in Britian is exposing the pedophilic leaders there as totally inept, we need a new one, no?
Remember that school shooting in Florida?
OPERATION HOGGWASH: No Death Records for the 17 Parkland Victims
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=168405
In reply to Maybe, they could hire Al… by Endgame Napoleon
dup
In reply to of course they do… by Bes
Trump
the Deep State gift that keeps on giving
or is this more
11D chesss???
it is, against us, the American people
enjoy
In reply to They don't do this already? by vortmax
This is a new low, even for the Deep State.
The fact that they are doing this so openly now, that is a major signpost of the times we are in!
In reply to of course they do… by Bes
The difference between transparency and blatant indifference.
In reply to This is a new low, even for… by exlcus
And that means fucking you - ZHers. It says all that? Maybe if it was in fucking English I'd be able to fucking read it.
In reply to of course they do… by Bes
Since 1968
In reply to They don't do this already? by vortmax
They are on their way to remedying that, with life expectancy for whites on the decline in the USA. All we need to put demographics back in place—which is the magic economic elixir in Third World countries the globe over—is more government-subsidized sex and reproduction for citizens and noncitizens. This will do it, especially with the increase in automated jobs.
In reply to Since 1968… by Deep Snorkeler
Since 1913, and November 1963.
In reply to Since 1968… by Deep Snorkeler
here mr dennigers thought on ithttps://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=233277
In reply to They don't do this already? by vortmax
(((Pharisaica))) has always been at war with Goyica.
FIFY
In reply to Oceania has always been at… by JoeTurner
Come by anytime assholes. You have the address.
In reply to (((Pharisaica))) has always… by HRClinton
Application for ‘March For Our Lives’ permit was made months before Parkland school shooting-
https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2018/03/30/application-for-march-for-o…
In reply to Oceania has always been at… by JoeTurner
Creating a ‘database’ which they have already !
It’s too late - the media can never regain their credibility !
EVERYBODY knows now !
In reply to Oceania has always been at… by JoeTurner
Pretty sure we'll all be on the list.
Their top priority will be comments about Joos on ZH.
In reply to Pretty sure we'll be on the… by Rainman
We need a code.
Jews = "kittens"
Hillary = "Chucky's bride"
Trump = Thor
immigrants = "love bunnies"
In reply to Their top priority will be… by 1.21 jigawatts
Where does womb-productivity-based welfare fall into that list?
In reply to We need a code… by Hillarys Server
I'd give a weeks salary to watch him try and drive a nail
In reply to We need a code… by Hillarys Server
Jews = "kittens"
THIS KITTEN !!!!!! ------>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlVRWynkhM
In reply to We need a code… by Hillarys Server
Who cares? They already know that this is just keyboard venting and therapy.
No one here is a genuine threat to (((TPTB))).
In reply to Pretty sure we'll be on the… by Rainman
You can have a big following, or a truthful message that pokes holes in the matrix; that's fine.
But if you have both, there will be trouble. You will either get paid off, subverted, or "knocked down a peg," one way or another.
Anyone remember the "Drinking with Bob" show?
In reply to Who cares? They already… by HRClinton
"Land of the fee and home of the slave"
What don't get killed in the coming wars will be put to death. They have the quota to meet on the Guidestones.
In reply to Pretty sure we'll be on the… by Rainman
The contributors might be. Which of them are saying anything that might red flag over-zealous NSA employees? If they start writing milquetoast articles, it will not be ZeroHedge anymore.
In reply to Pretty sure we'll be on the… by Rainman
If I'm not on the list I want to put my name on it. I don't want to get cheated out of my fucking visit.
In reply to Pretty sure we'll be on the… by Rainman
Ve haff your names. Ve know your crimes.
hI THERE, SPOOKS!
dIDJA KNOW THAT IF YOU FOLLOW UNcONSTITUTIONAL ORDERS, YOU ARE GUILTY?????
kewl huh
KTHKSL8R
Stupid ass leftist journalists lead the assault on the second amendment, and are too stupid to recognize that without it we wouldn’t have the first. How does it feel to have your rights violated fuckers? Not so good, does it?
I wouldn't want to be at Olmos Park TX today with these assholes watching everyone.
What is that data center in Utah for? cell phone calls?
MMOG
In reply to What is that data center in… by Heroic Couplet
Ever since this information came out, I dont see any posts with the words "ashkarian" or "bankers" anymore :-(
Homeland Security creates 7,000 terabyte database to track all the times permabear financial blogs falsely predict impending market crashes.
add me to the list=-ill buy u a beer-
https://youtu.be/VIuqiMNPa9g
We're all off the hook everybody knows this is a Sarcasm Site, so it doesn't mean anything when we say.
FUCK YOU NSA.. besides they can't throw us Old Fucks in the slammer it drives their Medical Costs up, and it's too early in the revolution to just make us Disappear
I'd be disappointed if I didn't make that list~
Pagination