Topic: Social Media Mining

The MIT Technology Review published a study claiming that data mining Twitter can reveal the origins of support for the Islamic State. The hosts dismiss the study as a way to justify increased surveillance and social media monitoring. They play a song about the loss of human connection in the age of digital "likes" and "shares."

A report from the C4ISR Journal details how the Pentagon and CIA exploit social media as "unwitting sensors" through population-centric Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). Companies like Booz Allen and the CIA-funded In-Q-Tel are reportedly mining the "Twitter firehose" to create predictive tools for the Department of Defense.