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UK Universities Offered To Monitor Students' Social Media For Arms Firms, Emails Show
Wednesday October 8, 2025. 08:05 PM , from Slashdot
![]() A second appeared to agree to a request from Raytheon UK, the British wing of a major US defence contractor, to 'monitor university chat groups' before a campus visit. Another university responded to a defence company's 'security questionnaire' seeking information about social media posts suggestive of imminent protests over the firm's alleged role in fuelling war, including in Gaza. The universities' apparent compliance with the sensitivities of arms companies before careers fairs has emerged in emails obtained by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates after freedom of information (FoI) requests. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/1759244/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-students-social-m...
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