Source: ITPro Portal
The Pentagon has plans to tap social networking websites to secure information, to detect and track the spread of ideas, enabling them to counter any upcoming threats.
According to the Washington Post, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the Pentagon, has announced that the authorities are looking for people proficient in social networking that could help them research and build strategic programs accordingly.
The DARPA has revealed that the organisation is willing to spend $42 million on the research and development program, as the US defense agency is looking to reach a new level with its intelligence division by keeping a track on the millions using social media.
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Pentagon to recruit Twitter and Facebook specialists
Published: August 3, 2011
now we can understand why all major news networks in the world made propaganda for those two sites ( facebook / twitter ) no matter the networks supported different political parties , they had a common goal :”follow us on facebook”… especially when those two websites didn’t brought any innovations in the life of every day web surfers and when there were already many alternatives ( at least o facebook) that would have deserved much more attention . but i guess nowadays open source information is valued like gold and there’s a reason why so many consider information analysis as the new trend when it comes to jobs…