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FBI’s Bias for Keywords
Loaded on April 15, 2024
by Carlo Difundo
published in Criminal Legal News
April, 2024, page 46
Filed under:
Government Misconduct,
FBI,
Police State-Surveillance,
Electronic Surveillance,
Social Media.
Location:
United States of America.
by Carlos Difundo
In September of 2021, then-Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Jill Sanborn told the Senate that the FBI did not monitor publicly available social media conversations. “It’s not within our authorities,” she told them, adding that the First Amendment barred them from doing so. It turns out that statement ...
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