are pushing back against digital sleuths, journalists and local activists by pressuring social media companies to remove the accounts from their platforms.coup attempt in TurkeyMichael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter for the Southern Poverty Law Center who has reported on the OSINT community, said he worries that social networks will begin to regularly pull down accounts of those trying to share information that foreign governments hope to downplay.
“The vast amount of publicly available information and the people who are skilled at pulling that information may be targeted because they are finding information that someone doesn’t want to be found,” Hayden says.its origins can be traced to intelligence gathering during World War II . The modern OSINT community is made up of people from various fields including journalism, academia, the military and technology.
Governments that may have initially been slow to recognize the impact of social media are now pushing hard to control online narratives. Those efforts have been manifested in propaganda campaigns, but governments have also sought to counter critiques by taking their case straight to the tech platforms.
The OSINT community isn’t the only group that has felt targeted after covering India-related news. Journalists reporting on India’s recent election expressed fears of being harassed, according to reporting by the
Kind of like when liberal social media networks censor ProLifers for telling truths about the fact that abortions actually involve suctions and scalpels rather than magic wands and fairy dust.
Instead of citing Indian law, Twitter should be forced to follow the United States Constitution as a public and online forum, thereby allowing the application of the 1st Amendment to their platform. Wanna stop hate? Centralize it on these platforms, don't send it to the shadows.
Really? I thought only MSM like you are trustworthy and everyone else just makes fake news...
TwitterSupport bans anybody who doesn't agree with their take on the world. As a conservative, my own account was locked FOR NO REASON other than I was commenting in favor of President Trump. Some $8 loser sitting behind a keyboard deciding who has the right to speak :)
“The internet's open source intelligence community”?
'In recent years, some OSINT groups have emerged as respected investigative outfits. The best known group, Bellingcat [...]' - that's too bad that India does not appreciate their high quality work...
internet geek's need to get back to school and study up on being a jock - jock's get girl's and also have the best hair cut's - ask anyone in class
Imagine that.. The government wants to restrict information?