Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like “Budget-Chicken-2425”
This is definitely happening on all major public social media.
Possibly even minor ones like here.
Spying on a public forum?
Reading the parts of the original report that are shown in the article, it gives me “AI-generated” vibes. Especially the part at the end, where they list other subreddits the user engaged with : this section feels so unnatural and irrelevant to the broader report
Knowing how much this administration loves AI, this seems plausible to me that these reports are auto generated, either from a human flagging specific posts, or from an automatic flagging system
It reminds me of the things people have posted about the AI-compiled info about users Reddit itself shows moderators. Probably Reddit gave feds an API that lets them use those systems they were already building.
Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) the account has been banned from reddit
