Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

[mysteryowl]

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said. In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and that have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents. The New York Times saw two subpoenas that were sent to Meta over the last six months.

The tech companies, which can choose whether or not to provide the information, have said they review government requests before complying. Some of the companies notified the people whom the government had requested data on and gave them 10 to 14 days to fight the subpoena in court.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html


So does this mean DU and its participants would be targeted?

[gopiscrap]

1. so much for free speech

[Jack Valentino]

2. Where do I sign up ? I'm anti-ICE, although I haven't posted much about it

outside of DU and DailyKos...

Perhaps I should go straight to Homeland Security's Twitter account!
(I presume they have one)


YES, it does mean that DU could be targeted, if they get that far down the list---
but administrative subpoenas are meaningless waste-paper---
they have NO force of law! Not without a judge----

but on the other hand, I would not completely trust the big social media companies
with their billionaire Trump-ass-kissing CEOs, to not cooperate with their fascist King
in his illegal witch-hunt!

[mysteryowl]

3. Thanks for your response.

[Jack Valentino]

5. I read about this elsewhere, meant to come here and post about it---

but didn't get around to it. Thank YOU for doing so!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. " that have criticized ICE" social media is full of "f*ck Ice"

[Jack Valentino]

7. Yeah, they'd have their hands full, wouldn't they--- ?

if they mean to use the information to try to intimidate those people,
the logistics would be INSANE---


maybe their plan is to send threatening mass spam Emails?? LOL

[mysteryowl]

11. "send threatening mass spam Emails"

[mysteryowl]

8. Ahhh....maybe 1.5 million that posted 5-30 times a day - ANTI-ICE

It is so ridiculous. Maybe Musk and Meta guy have an algorithm for searching. They probably do.
Then what? we all get moved to the new warehouse detention centers?

[vapor2]

6. What about bluesky?

I repost some stuff.

[mysteryowl]

9. Probably

[canetoad]

10. Don't think they

Are even on the same page as the giant sites. Bluesky founded and run by Jack Dorsey in response to the shitshow musk made of twitter.

[vapor2]

12. that's reassuring thanks!!

[sheshe2]

13. ***WARNING***

Duck and cover DU.

I remember the drills.