Social media to be monitored by federal government
OTTAWA—Big Brother is watching you — on just about every social-media platform you can imagine.
Tweets, public Facebook posts and YouTube videos could soon be subject to round-the-clock scrutiny by the federal government, a procurement document posted this week by Public Works and Government Services Canada suggests.
Welcome to media monitoring in the 21st century, when simply leafing through a stack of newspapers in the morning is about as antiquated as, well, newspapers.
The federal government is seeking a firm that “continuously monitors social media content on a daily basis in near real time and (can) provide web-based, online media metrics and reporting capabilities.”
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Excellent news. Maybe they'll see my complaints about the noisy neighbour and do something about the abysmal building code. One can dream.