All we have is the word of Department of Justice whistleblowers.
They told the New York Post that over the last 19 months, Facebook has been cooperating with the FBI to spy on “private” messages of users “outside the legal process and without probable cause.”
The targets were gun enthusiasts and those who questioned 2020’s election results.
“They [Facebook and the FBI] were looking for conservative right-wing individuals. None were Antifa types.”
According to the whistleblowers, Facebook flagged allegedly subversive private messages and sent them to the FBI to be studied by agents specializing in domestic terrorism.
Facebook provided the FBI “with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.” Subpoenas were then issued to obtain the conversations that Facebook had already revealed to the FBI.
According to one DOJ source: “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.”
Facebook has issued a denial. The FBI has issued a non-denial denial.
The allegations might seem very implausible but for the fact that as the November election approaches, the DOJ has been openly targeting Trump allies for claiming “that the vice president and/or president of the Senate had the authority to reject or choose not to count presidential electors.”
In short, for talking out of turn.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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1 reply on “Facebook, the FBI’s Snitch”
Disgusting but not surprising. It’s reasonable to assume that anything we post is read by the FBI. They probably don’t even need Facebook to flag messages, if they’ve figured out how to program bots to troll through everything online, searching for keywords they don’t like.
In time, everyone who works for the FBI today is going to be called to account.