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The new program, called “masked engagement,” allows homeland security officers to assume false identities and interact with users—friending them, joining closed groups, and gaining access to otherwise private postings, photographs, friend lists and more.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official tells me that over 6,500 field agents and intelligence operatives can use the new tool, a significant increase explicitly linked to more intense monitoring of American citizens.

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[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago

The bastards have been at it a long while
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Surveillance self defense
https://ssd.eff.org/

How to spot a fed
https://crimethinc.com/2013/07/06/is-she-an-informant-a-ten-point-checklist

Anybody wants a copy of any of the zines below, DM me

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