# SOCMINT **Entity class:** Intelligence discipline **Aliases:** Social Media Intelligence **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT)** is the collection, verification, analysis, and contextual interpretation of information from social platforms. Counterterrorism uses it for narrative, actor, network, event, and mobilization analysis. Public posts, private data obtained under legal process, platform-provided records, and covert access are different collection categories and must not be conflated. ## Relationships - **subset or specialization of:** [[wiki/OSINT|OSINT]] when based on openly available material. - **supports:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]], [[wiki/Social Network Analysis|Social Network Analysis]], and [[wiki/Memetic Contagion and Violent Extremism|Memetic Contagion and Violent Extremism]]. - **risk:** [[wiki/Algorithmic Amplification|Algorithmic Amplification]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]] ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Social-Media Analytics|Social-Media Analytics]], [[wiki/Cross-Platform Persona Analysis|Cross-Platform Persona Analysis]], [[wiki/Social-Media Military Tracking|Social-Media Military Tracking]], [[wiki/Reddit|Reddit]], [[wiki/Hacker News|Hacker News]], [[wiki/Bluesky|Bluesky]], [[wiki/Mastodon|Mastodon]], [[wiki/X Social Platform|X Social Platform]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].