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Cattledog

(6,559 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:42 PM Oct 3

ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests.

Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show that the agency is seeking private vendors to run a multiyear surveillance program out of two of its little-known targeting centers. The program envisions stationing nearly 30 private analysts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Vermont and Southern California. Their job: Scour Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms, converting posts and profiles into fresh leads for enforcement raids.

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ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7 (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 3 OP
Time to flood the platforms with bullcrap posts... MiHale Oct 3 #1
Stationed in Blue States purr-rat beauty Oct 3 #2
Anybody heard that Ivanka Trump is here illegally? struggle4progress Oct 3 #3
Yep she has no papers. Lock her up. Irish_Dem Oct 3 #4
Tie Them Up With Spanish Conversation AI Bots MrWowWow Oct 3 #5
Only 30? Still wouldn't be able to view even 1% of what comes online in any given day, millions of texts, posts, etc. SWBTATTReg Oct 3 #6
Elon/Big Balls will probably set up an AI program -- like was done when they wiped allegorical oracle Oct 3 #7

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
5. Tie Them Up With Spanish Conversation AI Bots
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:29 PM
Oct 3

It is possible to set up an entire network of AI distractors. Va Pour Sa!

SWBTATTReg

(25,753 posts)
6. Only 30? Still wouldn't be able to view even 1% of what comes online in any given day, millions of texts, posts, etc.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:31 PM
Oct 3

each hour.

allegorical oracle

(5,794 posts)
7. Elon/Big Balls will probably set up an AI program -- like was done when they wiped
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:39 PM
Oct 3

"gay" out of publications and changed it to "homosexual". LMAO at the WWII bomber, "Enola Homosexual."

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