# Future Use of Social Media in Continuous Vetting

**URL:** <https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/17530>\
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**Created:** [November 6, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/17530 "2023-11-06T14:59:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/marko/32/103_2.png) [@Marko](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Marko)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/17530/1 "2023-11-06T14:59:43Z")

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Originally published at: [https://www.clearancejobsblog.com/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/](https://www.clearancejobsblog.com/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/)  
   
Although Security Executive Agent Directive (SEAD) -5 already provides government agencies the authority to collect open-source social media data, most agencies have shied away from doing it for a couple of reasons. First, they do not have the manpower and expertise to pull and review the data, and second, they have not been provided the…

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**Author:** ![Diverbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Diverbob](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Diverbob)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/17530/2 "2023-11-10T18:09:54Z")

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I’m very curious to see how this is going to work. Heck, I’m very curious to see if it _can_ work!

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**Author:** ![everyafter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@everyafter](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/everyafter)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/future-use-of-social-media-in-continuous-vetting/17530/3 "2023-11-10T18:45:16Z")

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Yeah, that’s been interesting me as well. I have no active social media, but there is some stuff from 2002 on LiveJournal that’s less than flattering to me. I keep it around to remind me of what a jackass I used to be.