The Department of Homeland Security monitored “social media reactions” and “reflections” related to the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a DHS bulletin obtained by Yahoo News.
This alarmed current and former DHS officials and civil liberties advocates, who said the agency appears to have collected speech that is protected by the First Amendment.was produced by the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis and provides updates on what each part of the office is doing in the wake of the SCOTUS decision.
The monitoring of social media reactions and reflections in the wake of the Roe reversal was conducted in June, during Mayorkas’s tenure.on DHS and FBI’s domestic terrorism response that is highly critical of DHS’s social media monitoring programs. Civil liberties advocates said they were alarmed to learn that DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis is monitoring protected speech.
Levinson-Waldman added that “with DHS’s nationwide audience of tens of thousands of law enforcement officers, it is unclear who will receive this U.S. Intelligence Community report and how local agencies are supposed to use reactions to current events to police their citizens." DHS’s Office of Inspector General issued several reports this year detailing issues with the way the department collects open-source information, including social media posts.
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