DHS defends media-monitoring database, calls critics “conspiracy theorists”

Enlarge / Tinfoil hats, you say? (credit: DHS/Sam Machkovech) Earlier this week, Bloomberg Law uncovered a Department of Homeland Security job listing for a "media monitoring services" request to keep tabs on over 290,000 "global news sources" and develop an extensive database for an unconfirmed number of "media influencers." After news outlets reported about the amount of data sought by this job listing, DHS press secretary Tyler Houlton issued a response on Friday to verify its legitimacy and allege that the data project's aims will be "standard practice." What's more, Houlton added, "Any suggestion otherwise is fit for tinfoil hat-wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists." DHS's contract listing, posted on Tuesday, seeks a firm to deliver "media comparison tools, design and rebranding tools, communication tools, and the ability to identify top media influencers," for a span ranging from one to…

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