‘Big Brother’ tracks Galaxy Entertainment staff’s social media posts: report

Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) is clandestinely monitoring every post that its employees make on social media in a very Orwellian big brother-like manner, according to reports.

The South China Morning Post reported that the GEG has inked a deal with Hong Kong-based digital marketing firm YouFind to snoop around its employees’ social media accounts and sanitize the posts that are deemed detrimental to the casino operator’s image.

GEG reportedly tapped the services of YouFind after it was bombarded with negative feedback in the aftermath of Typhoon Hato last year. Typhoon Hato dealt Macau with a glancing blow in August 2017, and left at least 16 people dead. The typhoon was also powerful enough to shut down Asia’s premier gaming hub.

Documents obtained by the Hong Kong-based news outlet from an unnamed source showed that GEG started monitoring online activities two months ago after YouFind signed a “secret contract.”