The federal government was scheduled to start checking social media as part of a background checks for ... a hearing on the regulation of political advertising on social… Kelly Cohen talked ...

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OPM is conducting market research to find companies that can perform automated social media tracking and other types of Web crawling as part of the background investigation process, according to ...