Secret Service monitoring accounts on OnlyFans, Pinterest, and Twitch according to new documents

It has been revealed through documents obtained from the US Secret Service that the agency is engaged in the monitoring of users on websites such as OnlyFans, Twitch, and Pintrest in addition to more widely used platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization dedicated to governmental oversight, has successfully obtained a briefing sheet from the U.S. Secret Service dated December 2020.

In their search for communication records preceding the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, the organization discovered that the U.S. Secret Service was monitoring websites that have not previously been linked to violent political discourse, as indicated by the information provided in the briefing.

According to briefing sheets obtained from the Secret Service in December 2020, agents were instructed to perform routine surveillance of multiple lists of Twitter, Instagram, OnlyFans, Twitch, Parler, and Pinterest accounts. The majority of these accounts were either private or no longer active, with one OnlyFans account having been deactivated by the platform. The usernames associated with these accounts have been redacted.

Due to the fact that the documents solely consist of monitoring requests, it remains unclear why the Secret Service began monitoring the accounts, as well as the reason behind some of these accounts being selected for daily monitoring, even after they had already been deactivated or closed by their respective platforms.

The reasons behind the agency's decision to monitor accounts on these platforms, which are not typically associated with violent political rhetoric, remain uncertain. Nonetheless, given its duty to safeguard the safety of the nation's leaders and infrastructure, it is plausible that the agency's social media monitoring efforts are intended to avert violence and protect high-profile individuals from potential harm.

While the precise scope of social media monitoring carried out by the Secret Service and other intelligence agencies is not well-defined, the documents reveal that such surveillance goes beyond popular platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, indicating that a broader range of online forums may be under surveillance.

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