The Government Digital Service is spending £21,000 per year on a brand monitoring tool designed to track what is being said about it online.

Brandwatch monitors conversations happening online “in order to provide brands with information and the means to track specific segments to analyse their online presence”.

Reported by The Register. You can read the full story here. 

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