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2022-09-16 -Land of the Free

Facebook Spied on Conservative Users And Tipped The FBI-Conversations Copied Are Being used As Evidence In J6 Trials.

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

Looked innocent enough to some, but old 'Green Door' people knew better.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-16 03:31|| 2022-09-16 03:31|| Front Page Top

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-16 05:29|| 2022-09-16 05:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Eventually, nothing short of some making shocking examples of a few tech oligarchs will solve this.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-16 06:28|| 2022-09-16 06:28|| Front Page Top

#4 It would be interesting to see what Facebook was referring to the FBI. It is probably lame stuff. All quality insurrections are organized via Pinterest.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-09-16 07:18|| 2022-09-16 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Ow!

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-16 07:19|| 2022-09-16 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 a high school classmate of mine was visited by the FBI recently and asked if he knew anyone at the capitol building on January 6. He didn't. Now I think it's because of his Facebook posts critical of that election. So does he

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-09-16 08:02|| 2022-09-16 08:02|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Wouldn't the feebs just assume a no answer constituted "lying to the FBI?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-16 08:10|| 2022-09-16 08:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Best not to tell them anything except to get the hell out.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-16 11:46|| 2022-09-16 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 This is the key point:

But when the targeted Facebook users were investigated by agents in a local FBI field office, sometimes using covert surveillance techniques, nothing criminal or violent turned up.

“It was a waste of our time,” said one source familiar with subpoena requests lodged during a 19-month frenzy by FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, to produce the caseload to match the Biden administration’s rhetoric on domestic terrorism after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Still, all that focussed effort kept both Facebook staff and the FBI from jointly busying themselves more effectively, and therefore more harmfully.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-16 15:36|| 2022-09-16 15:36|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ I'm sure both organizations are trading ideas on how to make the searches more effective.

It's all wrong, but, at the same time, I really don't want people dumb enough to communicate on FarceBork overthrowing even our current corrupt gummint.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-16 15:44|| 2022-09-16 15:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Wait... I thought all the J6 Collaboration was done on Parler. Wasn't that the reason Big Tech kicked them on their platforms?

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-09-16 17:26|| 2022-09-16 17:26|| Front Page Top

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