Same techniques (largely derived from psychology, statistics, sociology, etc) used in social media marketing, intent tracking, etc has uses in national security

Same techniques (largely derived from psychology, statistics, sociology, etc) used in social media marketing, intent tracking, etc has uses in national security. Same thing that might let meta know you might be interested in batman pajamas can be used to sort out if you are being radicalized to action by some group. Interesting example is fractalrabbit. Group of people who both have the theoretical training and practical experience is probably pretty small so private/public crossover isn't unreasonable.