FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.
Patel said in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that he wanted to know whether any Minnesota residents had put federal agents “in harm’s way” with activities such as sharing agents’ license plate numbers and locations.
Local spoke about their need to do this and use code names to avoid being followed and harassed by ICE after attending a protest. Probably shouldn’t have done that on a televised city council meeting. But also, Americans have a right to free speech and organized protest. Dark times.
What FBI won’t be investigating is citizens unlawfully killed by ICE
Patel always looks like he’s a deer in the headlights. If only that car would speed up a little…
You cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm’s way.
You don’t understand - cocks gun - we are the victims here…
Probably the FBI stole someone’s phone, or they’ve joined the chat since the start.
Folks better start doing anti canary trap tactics. Once you shake the feds out, you can start composting.
Is it even possible? I mean, you need to share the chat, and probably have it publicly joinable.
Keeping feds out is basically impossible. Sharing the group only in person could work a bit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had undercover agents at any major gatherings.
Anti canary trap tactics? They work. It led to the Russian Revolution & Little Red books.
Ah, TIL. Though I can’t really come up with much that would scale well to the modern world where technologies are involved. But that might be only because I’m not thinking local enough, since that’s what matters.
However, I’m sure there’s an anarchist zine about exactly that.
We need a robust chat solution that doesn’t store your fucking phone number in their database. They can investigate all they want if the software is written well, everyone’s too focused on having support for a million stupid features though like stickers and gif library integration
It’s existed for years. Feds use it too.
Simplex has a psychotic dev who’s trying to pivot the platform to crypto
I’m sorry when did this happen
I was bracing for something bad, but that is downright ridiculous. NFTs? In 2025? This app is gonna be dead before it even reaches the later stages of enshittification.
I am depressingly aware.
Forks exist, but Cwtch hasn’t gone post quantum encrypted yet.
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Are there any chats they can’t investigate at this point?
there’s no such thing. even if you have a magical app that is impossible to hack/crack, if there are more than 10 people in the chat, assume there’s at least one narc
