Police exchanged protesters' Twitter handles, tracked protest plans in private channels, and monitored RSVP lists to protest events on Facebook.
As nationwide protests against police brutality and racism stretch into their second month across the US, newly leaked documents show how law enforcement is using social media to keep tabs on protesters.
The police documents were obtained by hackers last month and leaked to the website DDoSecrets, which describes itself as a publisher that does not participate in hacking. DDoSecrets then published the hundreds of thousands of files in a data dump titled"BlueLeaks." Several police tactics revealed in the leaked files were later compiled and analyzed by The Intercept.
Story continuesAfter publishing the BlueLeaks files, DDoSecrets was permanently banned from Twitter. A Twitter spokesperson told Business Insider the site was banned for breaking Twitter's policy against posting hacked material, but did not clarify why other news outlets that covered BlueLeaks were not similarly banned.
One document from a California fusion center lists dozens of protests that police anticipated beginning on June 2. The document notes that information about several protests was gleaned from Facebook pages, and lists the URL of one organizer's Facebook account .
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