Words in Social Media That Could Get You FLAGGED by Authorities

You might want to think again before using #snow #pork or #exercise as a hashtag on twitter or in any of your social media status updates. The Daily Mail just posted a story releasing a whole bunch of trigger words which they are claiming you should not use if you don't Homeland Security spying on you. The website claims the Department of Homeland Security has been obligated to release a bunch of keywords and phrases it uses to examine social network websites as well as online media for signs of terrorist or other  threats against the U.S.The list of words and phrases involves some rather obvious picks including 'jihad', 'attack', 'shootout' and 'car bomb' along with numerous relatively harmless words like 'ice', 'pork', 'team' and 'cloud'. Distributed under a freedom of information inquiry, the information brings public awareness to how exactly the government researchers are mandated to patrol the online world in search of domestic or external threats. The words are also in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by professionals at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reveal adversely on DHS in addition to response activities'. Department chiefs were required to release the information following a House hearing over information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which unveiled precisely how analysts monitor social signals and media companies for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government. Although they insisted the practice was not aimed at policing the web for disparaging information relating to the government and signals of general dissent, but to provide consideration of any possible threats. 

So in other words, if you complained on social media about all the snow this past winter, you might be under suspicion. Happy Spring everybody! 

Click HERE to view the List of "no no's"