Synecdoche, Frame

Dataminr doesn’t only work in conflict zones. It sells its tools to the biggest newsrooms through costly contracts, including the BBC, Sky News, and others, which have used “Dataminr for News” for years.

The company also has a growing influence in sponsoring prestigious "journalistic" institutions, including the Television Society’s Journalism Awards and the

A perfect example of how a corporation embeds itself in the foundations of Western mainstream media while its technology is used in surveillance models and in ways that enable serious human rights abuses elsewhere.