A message to corporate executives and their public-relations minders: One in a trillion may no longer be a reasonable guarantee of anonymity.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is confronting the difficult challenge of how to keep an eye on and sort through a fire hose of social media posts, which easily number more than a trillion every year—and only accelerating. Just weeks after Tesla founder Elon Musk tweeted in August that he had secured funding for a private buyout of the electric car maker, the commission said it was actively looking for an off-the-shelf tool to track posts.

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