OMG, CIA tracking Twitter, Facebook
MCLEAN, Virginia—In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is following tweets—up to 5 million a day. At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms—anything overseas [...]
