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Not only are police using social media to watch #BLM protestors, they're also contracting private, for-profit corporations to do their dirty work.

Why? So that they, themselves, don't get booted from Twitter and Facebook for violating Terms of Service.

More evidence that surveillance capitalism leads to a surveillance state.

https://www.wshu.org/long-island-news/2023-01-16/the-new-york-state-police-are-watching-your-social-media
The records also illustrate a cat and mouse game the state police have played with social media companies, which have tried to prevent law enforcement from using their platforms for surveillance. After the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that companies — including two to which the state police had subscribed — had used internal social media data to track Black Lives Matter protesters, the three major platforms cut off their access. The state police then entered into contracts — likely still in effect — with at least two different companies, one of which has found ways to monitor racial justice demonstrators without getting booted from Twitter’s data stream.

The New York State Police are watching your social media

The New York State Police bought social media monitoring programs that have violated platforms’ policies and been used to surveil Black Lives Matter protesters.
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