U.S. intel agencies may change how they monitor social media, chatrooms after missing leaked U.S. documents for weeks -- Sydney Park

The Biden administration is searching for ways to broaden their scope on how it monitors social media and chat rooms; this is because of how they failed to spot classified Pentagon documents that were circulating online for weeks. This plan of change is only a small instrument of change in a wide variety of options.

The documents were leaked in early March on Discord, but Biden and the Defense Secretary were only briefed about it last week. Some documents may have been leaked as early as January, though. 

The Biden administration is thinking about broadening the scope of websites that intelligence agencies and law enforcement people track.  Because the leaked documents appeared on a website that typically is used for gaming, it is understandable that some intelligence authorities didn't spot the leak. Even though the government has this plan, the intelligence community is trying to figure out how it can scrub platforms like Discord to avoid similar leaks in the future. The government is also questioning whether it should lower the number of people who have access to sensitive, classified information, and the administration has already tightened access to classified information. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/13/us-intel-agencies-may-change-how-they-monitor-social-media-chatrooms-after-missing-leaked-us-documents-for-weeks.html

- Sydney Park