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Sputnik: SocioSpyder: Why Pentagon Monitors Russian, Chinese Social Networks
The Pentagon wants to monitor Russia's most popular social network VKontakte, according to an announcement published on the US Federal Business Opportunities official website on Thursday.
The publication says that the US wants to purchase special software capable of monitoring Russian and Chinese social media, including Russian social network VKontakte.
SocioSpyder's Watching You
The software is called SocioSpyder and was designed to collect information from networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.
The stated goal of the program is to help the intelligence agencies in preventing emergencies, terrorist activity and other incidents that require an immediate response.
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WNU Editor: I thought these social media sites were already being monitored.
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