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Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post offices covert internet operations program Jana Winter The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense congressional scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), which tracks social media posts of Americans and shares that information with other law enforcement agencies. Yet the program is much broader in scope than previously known and includes analysts ...

Phoenix police don’t follow Fe’La iniko on social media, but he knows they’re watching. “They’re pretty hip to Instagram,” the racial justice activist said. “Sometimes they’ll pop up in my story views.” Iniko, whose given name is Milton Hasley, often uses social media to share fliers on upcoming protests or speak out against police violence. So when officers surrounded his car last summer while he was leaving a demonstration ag...

Arizona PBS By Nicole Sadek, Laura Kraegel, Jimmy Cloutier and Michael McDaniel/Special for Cronkite News May 13, 2021 (Video by Michael McDaniel/Special for Cronkite News) Phoenix police don’t follow Fe’La iniko on social media, but he knows they’re watching. “They’re pretty hip to Instagram,” the racial justice activist said. “Sometimes they’ll pop up in my story views.” Iniko, whose given name is Milton Hasley, often uses social media to share flier...

The Week That Will Be Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, May 10, 2021, at 3:00 p.m.: The House Administration Committee will hold a hearing titled, "Oversight of the January 6th Attack: United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment and Counter-Surveillance Before and During the Attack." The committee will hear testimony from Michael Bolton, inspector general of the Capitol Police.  Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 9:30 a.m.: The Senate Armed Services Committee will hol...

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Font Size The United States Postal Services has been quietly monitoring Americans’ social media posts, including posts about planned protests. At least some of that specifically targeted “right-leaning accounts.” The surveillance program, known as the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), centers around hired analysts who review social media accounts for “inflammatory” posts to share across government agencies, Yahoo Newsreported. “Analysts with the United States...

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DeSmog Jul 19, 2019 @ 11:08 Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is getting a lot of attention these days, with U.S. producers making major investments in the infrastructure to produce and export LNG to China and the rest of the world for the next several decades. That’s despite LNG looking like a big bet that may not ever pay off.  A common question about the super-chilled, easier-to-ship form of natural gas is whether LNG will become “the next coal.” This is a reference to the U.S. co...

The Week That Will Be Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at 9:30 a.m.: The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host an online event on the future of the U.S.-China relationship. CSIS expert Jude Blanchette will join Ryan Hass, senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, to discuss his new book, “Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence.” You can submit questions ...

Font Size Reporters? Or unpaid publicists? On her Thursday show, MSNBCs Hallie Jackson was joined by NBC reporter Blayne Alexander in Atlanta just publicizing calls to boycott Georgia and the lies that justify them, including President Bidens Wednesday remarks where he outrageously called the Georgias new election law "Jim Crow on steroids." MSNBC just casually put that on screen, like it was an authoritative statement of fact. Jackson noted that "The sports world and corpora...