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The Federal Reserve has Just Entered the Counterespionage Era and Will be Monitoring Everything Written About It Anywhere in the World
Posted on September 25, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog
Pentagon Manipulates Social Media
The Pentagon has worked for years to monitor and dominate social media and the Internet as a whole for propaganda purposes.
The Fed Wants To Manipulate Social Media
The Fed apparently wants to do the same thing.
Zero Hedge reports: The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, … in a Request for Proposals filed to companies that are Fed vendors, is requesting the creation of a " Social Listening Platform" whose function is to "gather data from various social media outlets and news sources." It will " monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria." The Fed's desired product should be able to "determine the sentiment [ED:LOL] of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document"… "The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc." Most importantly, the "Listening Platform" should be able to " Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers." Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world.
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From the key section of the RFP, presented in its entirety below:
I. Introduction
Social media platforms are changing the way organizations are communicating to the public Conversations are happening all the time and everywhere.
There is need for the Communications Group to be timely and proactively aware of the reactions and opinions expressed by the general public as it relates to the Federal Reserve and its actions on a variety of subjects.
II. Social Listening Platforms
Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria. They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document.
The information gathered can guide the organizations public relations group in assessing the effectiveness of communication strategies.
Here are some of the services it can offer:
o Track reach and spread of your messages and press releases
o Handle crisis situations
o Continuously monitor conversations
o Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers
o Spot emerging trends, discussions themes and topics
A. Geographic scope of social media sites
The solution must support content coming from different countries and geographical regions. It should also support multiple languages.
B. Content and Data Types
The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.
C. Reports and Metrics
The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations. It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics.
It must be able to provide summaries or high level overviews of a specific set of topics. It should have a configurable dashboard that can easily be accessed by internal analysts or management. The dashboard must support customization by user or group access.
The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger.
D. FRBNY Technology Integration
The solution must be able to integrate with existing FRBNY technologies such as: Google Search appliance, Lotus notes suite and web trends.It must have support for single sign on or windows integrated authentication.
E. Cost Structure
The solution should offer a flexible pricing structure that can support multiple user licensing. It should also have the option to base pricing on content volume and usage. Supplier acknowledges an understanding of and agrees to comply with the above minimum solutions requirements.
Full RFP:
Frbny Social Media Rfp
One Response to The Federal Reserve has Just Entered the Counterespionage Era and Will be Monitoring Everything Written About It Anywhere in the World
![[Image: de736038b1894ecae757efab0fd46d05?s=40&d=...s%3D40&r=G]](http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/de736038b1894ecae757efab0fd46d05?s=40&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D40&r=G) Nick Ryan says:
September 25, 2011 at 8:35 pm
So the Fed is making explicit the assumption that the IT sector should be able to bypass security or that the social media themselves are complicit. Either way this is a really important admission. We may have suspected such collaboration but I personally have never read such an explicit statement of the readily available access to private communications that this tender makes.
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September 26th, 2011Is there are Federal Reserve link for this document?
Here's the document that ZeroHedge has produced:
Sentiment Analysis And Social Media MonitoringSolution RFP
Request for Proposal (Event-6994)
Event Information
Description:
Federal Reserve Bank of New York ("FRBNY") is extending to suppliers an invitation to participate in an Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution RFP bid process. The intent is to establish a fair andequitable partnership with a market leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and newssources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal ("RFP") was created in an effort tosupport FRBNY's Social Media Listening Platforms initiative.
I've been seeing Fed users and robots on Cryptogon since 2002, so… *shrug shoulders*
Via: Economic Collapse Blog:
The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact. As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for Proposal" to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution". In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are. Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a problem. What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone that views the Federal Reserve negatively. It is unclear how they plan to use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling sign.
You can read this "Request for Proposal" right here. Posted below are some of the key quotes from the document (in bold) with some of my own commentary in between the quotes….
"The intent is to establish a fair and equitable partnership with a market leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and news sources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal ("RFP") was created in an effort to support FRBNY's Social Media Listening Platforms initiative."
A system like this is not cheap. Apparently the Federal Reserve Bank of New York believes that gathering all of this information is very important. In recent years, criticism of the Federal Reserve has become very intense, and most of this criticism has been coming from the Internet. It has gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has decided that it had better listen to what is being said and find out who is saying it.
"Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria. They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document."
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York intends to listen in on "billions of conversations" and to actually determine the "sentiment" of those that are participating in those conversations.
Of course it will be those conversations that are "negative" about the Federal Reserve that will be setting off the alarm bells.
"Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers"
Uh oh. So they plan to "identify" key bloggers and influencers?
What exactly do they plan to do once they "identify" them?
"The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube."
Hopefully you understand this already, but nothing posted on the Internet is ever anonymous. Everything on the Internet is gathered by a vast host of organizations and is used for a wide variety of purposes. Data mining has become a billion dollar industry, and it is only going to keep growing.
You may think that you are "anonymous" when you criticize organizations like the Fed, but the truth is that if you are loud enough they will see it and they will make a record of it.
"The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations. It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics."
Why do they need to perform "sentiment analysis"?
If someone is identified as being overly "negative" about the Fed, what will they do about it?
"The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger."
This sounds very much like the kind of "keyword" intelligence gathering systems that are currently in use by major governments around the globe.
Very, very creepy stuff.
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Does "background on sentiment analysis and an internet data mining industry website [identify] a more practical use that the FED has in mind besides counterespionage?
Or do you " think that the Federal Reserve (which is arguably beyond any accountability by any government, a fact openly boasted of by its agents, which holds total power in terms of printing currency, adjusting economic trends, managing (or creating) debt, and the absolute power to run all sides of any political or foreign policy scenario through the World Bank, the IMF and the Bank of International Settlements, and which thereby arguably is a totaltarian power even if plutocratic in its essence) needs to be marketed to the rest of us?"
Who has "been anointed, appointed or empowered by them to act as a minor-league filter in determining what information and content shall be allowed into the debate among a free and independent group of citizens about their reactions to such?"
Don't Worry, The Federal Reserve Just Wants To Be Your "Online Friend"
![[Image: Dont-Worry-The-Federal-Reserve-Just-Want...50x187.jpg]](http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dont-Worry-The-Federal-Reserve-Just-Wants-To-Be-Your-Online-Friend-250x187.jpg) According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve "is planning on monitoring what you say about it on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook". Apparently we are not supposed to be alarmed though, because as the CNBC headline states, the Federal Reserve just "wants to be your Facebook friend". In fact, the CNBC article says that anyone that feels threatened by the fact that the Federal Reserve will be monitoring what we say on Facebook and Twitter is just "paranoid". Well, if it came out that Barack Obama was setting up a system that would identify "key bloggers" and monitor "billions of conversations" on the Internet to see what was being said about him, wouldn't there be thousands of articles expressing outrage? Sure there would be. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be an independent central bank that is above politics. So why in the world would they need to perform "sentiment analysis" on what is being said about them on "Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube"? The Federal Reserve obviously intends to identify the negative things that are being said about it and the specific people that are saying those things. So is it really being "paranoid" to point out that all of this is more than a little bit creepy?
The other day, this story about the new "Social Media Monitoring Solution" that is being developed by the Federal Reserve was first broken by Zero Hedge. Then I wrote about this story on The Economic Collapse and a lot of other bloggers started writing about it too.
Well, it turns out that somebody must have hit a nerve or something. Just check out what CNBC had to say today....Although the Fed claims its move into the social realm is so that it may better [B] monitor its public perception[/B], some of the paranoids of the blogosphere are screaming Big Brother.
"Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world," Zero Hedge writes.
The [B][B]Economic Collapse blog goes even further.[/B][/B]
In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are. Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a problem. What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone that views the Federal Reserve negatively. It is unclear how they plan to use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling sign.
Look, it is not unusual for a large company to be involved in "data mining" operations. Data mining has become a billion dollar business.
But for the Federal Reserve to be so paranoid that it feels like it must monitor everything that is being said about it on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs is more than a little creepy.
Is it really irrational to question why our "independent central bank" wants to spy on what we are saying online?
Look, nobody can stop the Federal Reserve from tracking what all of us are saying about it on the Internet. It is perfectly legal for them to do. But it definitely does smell like something that "Big Brother" would do.
If the Fed wanted to "poke" me on Facebook or send me a few "tweets" on Twitter that would be fine, but all of this "eye in the sky" stuff is just ridiculous.
Someone needs to tell the Federal Reserve that if it has a "public relations problem" it is not because of a few half-crazed bloggers.
Millions of Americans really did get upset when the giant financial bubbles caused by reckless Fed policies resulted in the largest financial calamity since the Great depression.
Millions of Americans really did get upset when Ben Bernanke promised us over and over and over in 2005, 2006 and 2007 that everything was going to be okay and then the U.S. economy plunged into a horrific recession anyway.
Millions of Americans really did get upset when they learned that the Fed made trillions of dollars of secret loans to their friends during the last financial crisis.
The truth is that the Federal Reserve system is fundamentally flawed.
It is a perpetual debt machine that was designed to enslave the United States government to a mountain of debt that never stops expanding.
Right now, the U.S. national debt is more than 4700 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.
So should we be thankful to the Fed for that?
But instead of engaging us in rational debate, the Fed apparently wants to chill our free speech by letting us know that we are being watched.
This is part of a disturbing trend that is rapidly growing in America. Those in power want us to know that they are watching us so that we will not be so eager to speak out.
For example, a new website known as "Attack Watch" has been launched that will be gathering information on those that say "negative" things about Barack Obama on the Internet.
But sadly, it is not just those in power that are seeking to chill free speech. Right now we are a nation that is deeply divided. Everywhere you look, someone is engaged in political intimidation. Some of the things that liberals say that they want to do to Tea Party activists are obscene enough to make a sailor blush. Some conservatives say hateful things about Barack Obama and other top Democrats that are absolutely embarrassing.
Every single day "liberal" news outlets feed into the hatred that liberals have for conservatives, and every single day "conservative" news outlets feed into the hatred that conservatives have for liberals.
And if you think things are bad right now, just wait until we get closer to the 2012 election. The hatred is going to grow to levels that we have never even seen before.
But this is the way that the elite like it. They like us frothing at the mouth and totally engaged in the false left/right paradigm.
Meanwhile, our real problems go unsolved and the elite continue to strengthen their hold on this country.
Please wake up. There are only minor differences between most Democrats and most Republicans. Nearly every single one of them deserves to be voted out of office.
We need to speak up even louder and let the American people know that there are other choices.
They don't have to be stuck with having to choose between the lesser of two evils.
All across America, millions of Americans are waking up to the reality that neither political party plans to balance the budget, neither political party plans to restore our civil liberties and neither political party plans to shut down the Federal Reserve.
We need fundamental political and economic change in America, and we are not going to get that from either the Republicans or the Democrats.
We desperately need for this country to fall in love with the U.S. Constitution again and to return this nation to the principles that is was founded upon.
That is not going to happen under Barack Obama, it is not going to happen underRick Perry, it is not going to happen under Mitt Romney and it is not going to happen as long as the Federal Reserve is running our economy.
America is literally being run into the ground by "establishment Democrats", by "establishment Republicans" and by the Federal Reserve. Our current leadership has us on a path that will only lead to disaster.
Is this really the way that our story is going to end?
Or is America going to wake up and demand something better?
It is up to you America.
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