The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the legality of Republican-backed state laws in Texas and Florida that constrain the ability of social media companies to curb content on their platforms that these businesses deem objectionable.
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The State Department will soon mandate all foreigners seeking US visas to disclose all social media accounts as part of the application process.
White House officials have said the move is a, “critical step forward in establishing enhanced vetting of foreign nationals.”
Failure to disclose social media accounts could result in a lifetime ban from applying for visas.
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The U.S. military plan to analyse 350 billion public social media posts in their continued effort to study how popular movements evolve. The study which will look at posts, comments, metadata, and location identifiers of around 200 million people over a 100 countries will be the most ambitious of its kind.
The study will be conducted out of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and seeks to discover what mobilises people.
William A. Carter, deputy director for tech policy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, said the study is important to help defend against adversaries who seek to undermine democracy and create divisions in western society: “We need to better understand how narratives are shaped and communities are formed online to defend ourselves against these campaigns,” he said.
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It is common knowledge that governments scour the data sent over the internet on websites, social media, and email for potential threats. They do so by searching for the certain keywords, they believe highlight a potential threat. Unsurprisingly, the list includes words like: “bomb”, al Qaeda”, “terrorist”; however the list contains some more unlikely additions, like: “pork, “cloud”, “team” and “Mexico”.
As well as monitoring potential terrorist threats government agencies are also trying to find criminals, and identify health risks.
The Department of Homeland Security was forced to publish the list after a freedom of information request. So if you don’t want the government spying on you below is the words not to use online:
