by Tyler Durden
According to DOJ whistleblowers, Facebook has been spying on Americans’ private messages and reporting them to the FBI if they express ‘anti-government or anti-authority’ statements – including questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 US election.+
As the New York Post‘s Miranda Devine writes, “Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.”
“It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause,” said one of the whistleblowers, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.”
According to one Post source, “They [Facebook and the FBI] were looking for conservative right-wing individuals. None were Antifa types.”The Facebook users whose private communications Facebook had red-flagged as domestic terrorism for the FBI were all “conservative right-wing individuals.”
“They were gun-toting, red-blooded Americans [who were] angry after the election and shooting off their mouths and talking about staging protests. There was nothing criminal, nothing about violence or massacring or assassinating anyone.
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Some of the targeted Americans had posted photos of themselves “shooting guns together and bitching about what’s happened [after the 2020 election]. A few were members of a militia but that was protected by the Second Amendment …-NY PostOnce flagged, the private messages were farmed out as “leads” to FBI field offices around the country, which would then reach out to that area’s US Attorney’s Office to legally obtain the private conversations they had already been shown.
“As soon as a subpoena was requested, within an hour, Facebook sent back gigabytes of data and photos. It was ready to go. They were just waiting for that legal process so they could send it,” said one source.
That said, the feds aren’t finding much to prosecute.
“It was a waste of our time,” said one source familiar with the 19-month ‘frenzy’ by the FBI to find domestic terrorism cases to match the Biden administration’s rhetoric after the Jan. 6 2021, Capitol riot.
Facebook has denied the allegations in two contrasting statements sent one hour apart.
“These claims are false because they reflect a misunderstanding of how our systems protect people from harm and how we engage with law enforcement. We carefully scrutinize all government requests for user information to make sure they’re legally valid and narrowly tailored and we often push back. We respond to legal requests for information in accordance with applicable law and our terms and we provide notice to users whenever permitted,” said Erica Sackin, a spokesperson at Facebook’s parent company, Meta.
Then, in a second “updated statement” sent 64 minutes later, Sackin changed her language to say that the claims were “wrong” and not “false.”
“These claims are just wrong. The suggestion we seek out peoples’ private messages for anti-government language or questions about the validity of past elections and then proactively supply those to the FBI is plainly inaccurate and there is zero evidence to support it,” said Sackin, a DC-based crisis response expert who previously worked for Planned Parenthood and “Obama for America” and now leads Facebook’s communications on “counterterrorism and dangerous organizations and individuals.” (via NY Post)
The FBI would neither confirm nor deny the allegations, but did acknowledge that the agency has a relationship with social media companies that enable a “quick exchange” of information and an “ongoing dialogue.”
“The FBI maintains relationships with U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers. The FBI has provided companies with foreign threat indicators to help them protect their platforms and customers from abuse by foreign malign influence actors. U.S. companies have also referred information to the FBI with investigative value relating to foreign malign influence. The FBI works closely with interagency partners, as well as state and local partners, to ensure we’re sharing information as it becomes available. This can include threat information, actionable leads, or indicators. The FBI has also established relationships with a variety of social media and technology companies and maintains an ongoing dialogue to enable a quick exchange of threat information,” said the agency in a statement.Facebook’s denial that it proactively provides the FBI with private user data without a subpoena or search warrant, if true, would indicate that the initial transfer has been done by a person (or persons) at the company designated as a “confidential human source” by the FBI, someone with the authority to access and search users’ private messages.
In this way, Facebook would have “plausible deniability” if questions arose about misuse of users’ data and its employee’s confidentiality would be protected by the FBI.
“They had access to searching and they were able to pinpoint it, to identify these conversations from millions of conversations,” according to one of the DOJ sources.Recall in late August Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed to Joe Rogan that the FBI warned the company about “Russian propaganda” right before the Hunter Biden story broke – which the company then censored aggressively.
Hmm… I can’t help but notice they aren’t concerned with “anti-American” or “anti-Constitution” expressions. Is there some significance to that, I wonder?
Perhaps some take this talk about disbanding the FBI if they can’t be reformed seriously.
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One should hope that domestic terrorists are being spied on.
Do you like domestic terrorism? Do you think their online activities shouldn’t be monitored?
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If there were a Most Often Going Off Topic award, you would have it in the bag.
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Hey there are real nasty terrorists we need protection from
That’s taken from Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300, a 1992 book by conspiracy theorist Dr. John Coleman. Coleman has also claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood is a secret Masonic order, created with support from Lawrence of Arabia, Bertrand Russell and St John Philby, to “keep the Middle East backward so its natural resource, oil, could continue to be looted.”
I’d be more worried about domestic terrorists attacking the nation’s vulnerable energy grid—which they’ve already done more than once—like some armed whackadoodle Mini-Me version of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine strategy.
Why worry its most likely someone shipped into the interior by Biden.
See we are trying to keep the lights on, its Bides domestic terrorists trying to shut down energy.
I seem to recall that Biden’s policy promotes grid modernization to pave the way for increased utilization of renewable electrical energy sources.
With strip mining for rare earth minerals required, solar and wind are pipe dreams. Look at Europe if you dont believe, they are opening a coal mine.
10/25/22 – Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a new way to create a possible replacement for rare earth magnets.
Wow, did you actually provide something substantial? Amazing!
How long before Biden sells it to China?
Have you SEEN any of this “modernization”? Obama took $865 billion for infrastructure; where’d THAT go? In a few more years, Democrats will want another $4 trillion for infrastructure because they stole the first $4 trillion and their inflation made it worth only $4 thousand and now they have to steal more.
$865 Billion? The legislation only directed $105.3 Billion to the nation’s infrastructure.
I know how they wasted it. What I speak of is how it was sold to the public. Nice of you to confirm the “shovel ready” myth was as much a lie as the “broken water main” lie.
All of the money was actually spent on infrastructure improvements–roads, highways, airports, railroads, city buses, and drinking water systems–as was intended.
The Obama administration maintained a publicly accessible online database showing precisely where the stimulus money was going, down to the state, county, and community levels.
No it wasn’t.
It doesn’t matter. Obama, Biden, whoever the installed puppet is at the time comes with some urgent “cause” that’s lining the pockets of those who installed them, at best, or merely passing bills like this to launder the money through places like Ukraine, at best.
There are many urgent problems that right denies will affect our nation, or denies the existence of altogether. Fortunately somebody is dealing with them.
I just don’t know how your going to handle it when we’re all still alive, you’re the *sshole eating bugs to survive, and those of use who tire of your lunacy are knocking at your door.
It’s going to be tough for you to accept, but you’ll get there.
I don’t recall Democrats not being able to steal enough money being a problem that needed to be addressed. Trump wanted to fund infrastructure, but Democrats blocked it until they had the power to load it with wasteful pork.
You mean like replacing all the doorknobs in a city hall in Collins, Mississippi or a sidewalk that starts at the end of a very small Oklahoma town and goes for about ten blocks in the middle of nowhere? How about money to modernize a city jail that hasn’t been used since the ’60’s or giving $250,000.00 to a small town (less than 10,000) historical society? That kind of improvements?
Maybe you should go to Collins, Mississippi and protest the new doorknobs.
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Slavery in the United States was abolished 150 years ago today. .
Idiot Biden was in charge of the spending. That means a large portion went into his pockets and up Hunter’s nose. There was little or no infrastructure improved because, as Obama himself laughingly put it, “the shovel-ready jobs weren’t as shovel-ready as they thought”. Hardy har har, adios $865 billion.
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THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.
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I approve of every socially responsible action that Musk has listed.
That is a social responsible policy, and it is entirely within the rights of any private sector social media outlet to adopt and implement it.
Musk is going to destroy Twitter by turning it into an open sewer that advertisers will abandon because they won’t want their products to be associated with the damage done, and the growing stink.
Freedom of Speech does not mean anyone has to be provided with a free megaphone.
He’s done just the opposite. Twitter was a closed, recirculating sewer of leftist propaganda. He’s simply allowing for the opposing voices to answer to the lies. THAT is what the left hates, fears like a vampire fears sunlight.
For instance, the left’s lies and propaganda about COVID, masks, treatments and vaccines have gotten hundreds of thousands of people killed. The sanitizing effect of the voices of TRUTH and SCIENCE might have saved many of those lives.
More, thanks to Musk’s revelations, we’ve seen all the arguments of the right confirmed and vindicated.
11/25/22 – Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over, report says
They were fine with kiddie porn but free speech gets a cancel. CCP crap.
NPR… really? Remember, they refused to cover the laptop contents because it wasn’t important enough. Either you love to be lied to or you aren’t smart enough to realize that someone that has lied to you will likely KEEP lying to you.
Why do you on the left fear free speech so much? What is it about everyone having the same voice that is so frightening? Do you think your ideology is so decrepit and degenerate that it cannot stand up to scrutiny and discussion?
Since Musk took over, hate speech on Twitter is also down. I guess these advertisers think their market lies with the racist, hateful, anti-American leftists on Twitter. Hell, YOU can’t even face up to the questions posed to you about the lies idiot Biden tells, the left’s violent character or the Democrat’s anti-American agenda. No surprise you support Twitter cowards censoring any opinions they disagree with but cannot refute.
It’s simply clear the left hates our Constitutional rights.
Because they are coordinated by the government.
That’s fascism.
Thanks for the proof.
Its illegal without a warrant commie boy. Bidens letting in humans on terrorist watchlists across the border all the time.
And he is forcing taxpayers to pay the bill for the human trafficking against what is their better judgment.
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You’re under the impression that we have some guaranteed right to privacy in connection with social media sites? The Supreme Court recently threw out the interpretation that the Fourteenth Amendment implied a right to privacy in order to kill Roe v. Wade.
Refer to the law of Unintended Consequences.
What has that to do with child porn? Are you retarded?
If they would monitor the actual domestic terrorists like BLM and ANTIFA, it might be useful in protecting American citizens. Instead, they merely use it against their political opponents. Do you think there is any reason for the ANTIFA terrorists not being prosecuted for attacking a federal courthouse, trying to burn it down, trying to harm or kill the federal officers protecting it or when they tried to trap officers inside their station and burn them to death?
Neither BLM nor ANTIFA have cut off power to anyone’s home ventilators, oxygen concentrators, stair lefts, dialysis machines, internet-dependent telephone service, home heating, or electrical lights.
You dont know it wasnt antifa that attacked the grid.
Nah, they just fired heavy fireworks mortars at cops, tried to blind them with lasers, tried to barricade cops in their station and burn them to death, bushwacked those who disagreed and murdered them, ambushed cops and assassinated them, burned and looted private businesses. They did this for 9 months, non-stop. Nothing really significant, huh?
Nah, they just fired heavy fireworks mortars at cops, tried to blind them with lasers, tried to barricade cops in their station and burn them to death, bushwacked those who disagreed and murdered them, ambushed cops and assassinated them, burned and looted private businesses. They did this for 9 months, non-stop. Nothing really significant, huh?
Neither BLM nor ANTIFA have cut off power to anyone’s home ventilators, oxygen concentrators, stair lefts, dialysis machines, internet-dependent telephone service, home heating, or electrical lights.
Nor have any “domestic terrorists” that you and the rest of your traitorous scum have invented.
So say all tyrants.
So greg, let me educate you.
When government become totalitarian, like the US now has, they go after those who oppose them….usually people who still believe in the basic tenets and existence of the country the ursurpers, you, are trying to replace.
They call those people “terrorists” or “rebels” or a host of lies that are meant to vilify the citizens who don’t want the new, always-unelected, regime.
YOU’RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS, GREG. AND I’M NOT TALKING BIDEN/TRUMP, GOP/DEMOCRAT, ATHEIST/CHRISTIAN.
I’d advise you re-read The Book of Revelation to remind you of what happens to the Dragon, the Beast, and the Harlot.
And also you should buff up on how those 450 profits of Ba’al did against Elijah.
Sabotage a power substation, and you’ve become a terrorist. Threaten elected officials, election workers, and their families with violence because they don’t agree with your political views, and you’ve become a terrorist.
Trying to overturn a presidential election by setting up phony electors and then inciting mob violence to stop the legitimate electoral count is insurrection.
Pressuring state officials to just say what you want and just come up with the votes you need is a crime.
It’s not that difficult to understand.
Rig an election, and you become a traitor and enemy of the state.
The only terrorists we face are the ones sabotaging our elections and lying when they get caught.
greg…
You’re a terrorist.
If you’re terrified of the facts, that’s not my problem.
Does Curt understand yet that the “greg” account is A.I.?
So, Democrats are terrorists. We agree.
Knowing how concerned Democrats are with perjury, I’m surprised they haven’t had Dorsey arrested and put in no-bail solitary confinement.
More proof the government worked with tech companies to destroy democracy and install their regime.
That’s fascism. Real fascism.