DHS launches warning system to find domestic terrorism threats on public social media.
but were missed or ignored by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the officials said.
"Domestic violent extremism poses the most lethal, persistent terrorism-related threat to our homeland today," said Sarah Peck, a DHS spokeswoman, adding that all DHS efforts against the threat"are carried out in close coordination with our privacy, civil rights and civil liberties experts and consistent with the law."
"People say inflammatory stuff on social media, but as an empirical matter, that speech isn't a valid or reliable predictor of violent conduct," he said.to collect social media information about visa applicants, saying the agency"has not adequately demonstrated the practical utility of collecting this information.""That leads to the suppression of ideas and discourse that might be deemed controversial," he said.
"As a way to gauge potential threats, potential narratives that animate people to action, the online space is where that's at," he said."This is why the insurrection was predictable from our point of view, because the planning and the organizing was happening in plain site. ... This is not an easy issue, but one thing we can all agree on is that in order to get ahead of the next threat, you need to go into the spaces in which the extremists are present.
He said DHS planned"increased analytic focus to more comprehensively assess how violent extremist actors and other perpetrators of targeted violence exploit and leverage social media and other online platforms and how those online activities are linked to real-world violence."
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