US federal surveillance warned of violence at protests
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Based on documents released in response to a FOIA request, the Federa Protective Service, a law enforcement agency within the US Department of Homeland Security that monitors nearly 10,000 government facilities, warned officials that increasingly widespread pro-Palestinian protests could attract white supremacists and "racially motivated violent extremists" and become violent. Analysts base these warnings on raw data gathered by mining posts to social media and Internet message boards using software like Dataminr and monitoring protests in progress.
Publication: Bloomberg
Writer: Jason Leopold
Publication date: 2024-05-03
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