US Postal Service monitored protests on social media with little oversight, records show

Records released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show the US Postal Service's internal iCOP programme routinely reviewed social media posts about protests in 2020 and 2021, and circulated bulletins about planned events. Many bulletins were descriptive, and some anticipated violence without citing specific threats. The agency has since renamed the programme and says it stopped distributing bulletins, but the documents do not show that the monitoring ended, and very few internal rules were disclosed.

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