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    What could go wrong?

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    Department of Homeland Security plans to start a great big database that will

    "monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and compile a database of journalists, editors, foreign correspondents, and bloggers to identify top “media influencers.”

    Oh, sure, maybe some of the details in Bloomberg’s report on the solicitation for bids might sound a little Orwellian if you take it completely out of context:


    “Services shall provide media comparison tools, design and rebranding tools, communication tools, and the ability to identify top media influencers,” according to the statement. DHS agencies have “a critical need to incorporate these functions into their programs in order to better reach federal, state, local, tribal, and private partners,” it said.

    The DHS wants to track more than 290,000 global news sources, including online, print, broadcast, cable, and radio, as well as trade and industry publications, local, national and international outlets, and social media, according to the do ents. It also wants the ability to track media coverage in more than 100 languages including Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, with instant translation of articles into English […]

    The DHS request says the selected vendor will set up an online “media influence database” giving users the ability to browse based on location, beat, and type of influence. For each influencer found, “present contact details and any other information that could be relevant, including publications this influencer writes for, and an overview of the previous coverage published by the media influencer.”



    Read more at https://wonkette.com/632361/departme...DhA6FhBdTsg.99

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    Just the concept alone is straight up 1984. Jeebus!

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    Its called google

    They already doing it with monetizing and page ranks

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    Just wondering: Is this a conspiracy theory, OP?

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    Its called google

    They already doing it with monetizing and page ranks
    Heck, the NSA and CIA probably have been doing it for way longer, tbh...

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    Heck, the NSA and CIA probably have been doing it for way longer, tbh...
    Oh them?

    Nah they review the articles before they are published. If they dont like it they either make corrections or rewrite entire article and make journalist sign their name under it

    F journalist gets on bad list they do not grant them any sources and journalist soon find themselves out of a job

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    Oh them?

    Nah they review the articles before they are published. If they dont like it they either make corrections or rewrite entire article and make journalist sign their name under it

    F journalist gets on bad list they do not grant them any sources and journalist soon find themselves out of a job
    best way to influence comms is to embed agents in newsmedia, tbh... plus they get to travel to war zones with a get outta jail free card.

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    best way to influence comms is to embed agents in newsmedia, tbh... plus they get to travel to war zones with a get outta jail free card.
    You are discussing this with a moron.

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    we're agreeing, pretty much

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    we're agreeing, pretty much
    Well if his knowledge on this material is anything like his knowledge of foreign affairs you are both gonna end up dead wrong.

    Just sayin...

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    Well if his knowledge on this material is anything like his knowledge of foreign affairs you are both gonna end up dead wrong.

    Just sayin...
    wouldnt be the first time, tbh

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    wouldnt be the first time, tbh
    Well.

    The NYTimes is the mouthpiece of the CIA and Assad is a humanitarian... so the company is sketchy.

    As for the OP, it is of course disturbing.

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    Just the concept alone is straight up 1984. Jeebus!
    Doubleplusgood!!

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    Its called google

    They already doing it with monetizing and page ranks
    Tell me what level of government google is at again?

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    Just wondering: Is this a conspiracy theory, OP?
    Not in the conventional sense. I have neither the time, nor the crayons to explain it to you.

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    Tell me what level of government google is at again?
    Here ya go ma niga. From markcarrigan.net

    Putting aside the fact that Google chairman Eric Schmidt has visited the Obama White House more than any other corporate executive in America and that Google chief lobbyist Katherine Oyama was associate counsel to Vice President Joe Biden, the list of highly placed Googlers in the federal government is truly mind-boggling.

    • The US chief technology officer and one of her deputies are former Google employees.

    • The acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s an rust division is a former an rust attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Silicon Valley firm that represented Google.

    • The White House’s chief digital officer is a former Google employee. • One of the top assistants to the chairman of the FCC is a former Google employee and another ran a public lobbying firm funded in part by Google. • The director of United States Digital Service, responsible for fixing and maintaining Healthcare.gov, is a former Google employee.

    • The director of the US Patent and Trademark Office is the former head of patents at Google. And of course the revolving door goes both in and out of the government, as the Google Transparency Project (an independent watchdog report) clearly stated.

    • There have been fifty-three revolving-door moves between Google and the White House.

    • Those moves involved twenty-two former White House officials who left the administration to work for Google and thirty-one Google executives (or executives from Google’s main outside firms) who joined the White House or were appointed to federal advisory boards.

    • There have been twenty-eight revolving-door moves between Google and government that involve national security, intelligence, or the Department of Defense. Seven former national security and intelligence officials and eighteen Pentagon officials moved to Google, while three Google executives moved to the Defense Department.

    • There have been twenty-three revolving-door moves between Google and the State Department during the Obama administration. Eighteen former State Department officials joined Google, while five Google officials took up senior posts at the State Department.

    • There have been nine moves between either Google or its outside lobbying firms and the Federal Communications Commission, which handles a growing number of regulatory matters that have a major impact on the company’s bottom line.

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    Not in the conventional sense. I have neither the time, nor the crayons to explain it to you.
    Just getting out in front of the conspiracy, you are. You're blue pilled, bro. You're supposed to trust the government.

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    Here ya go ma niga. From markcarrigan.net

    Putting aside the fact that Google chairman Eric Schmidt has visited the Obama White House more than any other corporate executive in America and that Google chief lobbyist Katherine Oyama was associate counsel to Vice President Joe Biden, the list of highly placed Googlers in the federal government is truly mind-boggling.

    • The US chief technology officer and one of her deputies are former Google employees.

    • The acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s an rust division is a former an rust attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Silicon Valley firm that represented Google.

    • The White House’s chief digital officer is a former Google employee. • One of the top assistants to the chairman of the FCC is a former Google employee and another ran a public lobbying firm funded in part by Google. • The director of United States Digital Service, responsible for fixing and maintaining Healthcare.gov, is a former Google employee.

    • The director of the US Patent and Trademark Office is the former head of patents at Google. And of course the revolving door goes both in and out of the government, as the Google Transparency Project (an independent watchdog report) clearly stated.

    • There have been fifty-three revolving-door moves between Google and the White House.

    • Those moves involved twenty-two former White House officials who left the administration to work for Google and thirty-one Google executives (or executives from Google’s main outside firms) who joined the White House or were appointed to federal advisory boards.

    • There have been twenty-eight revolving-door moves between Google and government that involve national security, intelligence, or the Department of Defense. Seven former national security and intelligence officials and eighteen Pentagon officials moved to Google, while three Google executives moved to the Defense Department.

    • There have been twenty-three revolving-door moves between Google and the State Department during the Obama administration. Eighteen former State Department officials joined Google, while five Google officials took up senior posts at the State Department.

    • There have been nine moves between either Google or its outside lobbying firms and the Federal Communications Commission, which handles a growing number of regulatory matters that have a major impact on the company’s bottom line.

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    Here ya go ma niga. From markcarrigan.net

    Putting aside the fact that Google chairman Eric Schmidt has visited the Obama White House more than any other corporate executive in America and that Google chief lobbyist Katherine Oyama was associate counsel to Vice President Joe Biden, the list of highly placed Googlers in the federal government is truly mind-boggling.

    • The US chief technology officer and one of her deputies are former Google employees.

    • The acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s an rust division is a former an rust attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Silicon Valley firm that represented Google.

    • The White House’s chief digital officer is a former Google employee. • One of the top assistants to the chairman of the FCC is a former Google employee and another ran a public lobbying firm funded in part by Google. • The director of United States Digital Service, responsible for fixing and maintaining Healthcare.gov, is a former Google employee.

    • The director of the US Patent and Trademark Office is the former head of patents at Google. And of course the revolving door goes both in and out of the government, as the Google Transparency Project (an independent watchdog report) clearly stated.

    • There have been fifty-three revolving-door moves between Google and the White House.

    • Those moves involved twenty-two former White House officials who left the administration to work for Google and thirty-one Google executives (or executives from Google’s main outside firms) who joined the White House or were appointed to federal advisory boards.

    • There have been twenty-eight revolving-door moves between Google and government that involve national security, intelligence, or the Department of Defense. Seven former national security and intelligence officials and eighteen Pentagon officials moved to Google, while three Google executives moved to the Defense Department.

    • There have been twenty-three revolving-door moves between Google and the State Department during the Obama administration. Eighteen former State Department officials joined Google, while five Google officials took up senior posts at the State Department.

    • There have been nine moves between either Google or its outside lobbying firms and the Federal Communications Commission, which handles a growing number of regulatory matters that have a major impact on the company’s bottom line.
    Those aren't google employees. The special interest "revolving door" doesn't make Google the government any more than it does Exxon or Procter and Gamble.

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