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Postal Service Cops Are Monitoring Social Media, 'Sensitive' Internal Document Says

By Whitney Kimball

4/21/21 7:03PM

 

Add another pushpin to the string wall of Americaโ€™s shadowy force of postal service cops. Yahoo News reports that the USPSโ€™s security arm, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), monitored social media for potential threats of domestic violence. According to a USPIS memo obtained by Yahoo News, the agency collected โ€œinflammatoryโ€ Parler and Telegram posts ahead of planned March 20 protests and shared them with other agencies.

 

The previously unknown operation is called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP). Itโ€™s unclear whether this is an ongoing program or was established for the sole purpose of collecting right-wing social media posts. The investigation seems to include posts from Facebook and other social media platforms, but the full breadth of the investigation is not clear from the document. The QAnon-promoted protests, against vaccines and covid-19 safety measures, were set for March 20, a date some believed would mark Donald Trumpโ€™s surprise return to the White House.

 

The two-page document, which is labeled โ€œlaw enforcement sensitiveโ€ and was distributed by a DHS intelligence โ€œfusion center,โ€ reads in part:

 

Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021โ€ฆLocations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.

 

Neither the USPIS nor the DHS immediately responded to our requests for comment.

 

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https://gizmodo.com/postal-service-cops-are-monitoring-social-media-sensit-1846735276