According to internal documents reviewed by Vice, the Department of Homeland Security in 2018 sought to develop a method for assigning "risk scores" to social media users, in a program to identify "disinformation" efforts named "Night Fury" by the DHS.

“The Contractor shall develop these attributes to create a methodology for developing a ranking, or ‘Risk Score,’ associated with the identified accounts. The Contractor shall develop tools to automate the identification process, documenting performance measures and metrics related to automating the identification process,” one of the documents reads.