U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to dramatically expand its social media surveillance capabilities by hiring nearly 30 private contractors to analyze posts, photos, and online messages and convert them into intelligence for arrests and deportation raids, according to new documents reviewed by Wired.
The plan would establish round-the-clock monitoring at two ICE targeting centers—one in Williston, Vermont, and another in Santa Ana, California—where private analysts would scour public data from Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, among other sites.
