Summary
The FBI is investigating a surge of anonymous racist and offensive text messages targeting Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities following last week’s election.
Messages have included threats of deportation, re-education camps, or being forced into plantation labor.
While no violence has resulted, the texts, sent via services like TextNow, have prompted collaboration between the FBI, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and local authorities.
Advocacy groups like LULAC and the NAACP condemned the harassment, citing it as a troubling resurgence of hate rhetoric emboldened by recent political developments.
I’ve been calling this for years. The next holocaust will be more efficient than Hitler could ever imagine beyond his wildest dreams. Big tech knows more than people know about themselves. We’re all on lists we don’t even know we’re on. People will be discriminated for reasons they didn’t know they could be.
FBI on Jan 20 Afternoon: “The racist texts are being sent by democrats and antifa as a false flag operation to blame republicans. Heil Trump! President for life!”
Tin foil hat time: What if it’s the Russians just trying to spark a civil war over here?
No, that’s been their plan the entire time.
Yeah this is just regular hat type thinking
It most likely is a state actor with the scale at play.
What should be more concerning is that they have these lists of people to target.
Just pay a data broker. I’m sure it’s trivial to find demographics tied to phone numbers.
I think there’s a lot of ways to connect those dots. It’s not very “tin foil” in my opinion. There’s no way to “invade” the US. They have to destroy it from within.
There’s no way to “invade” the US
There will be if Trump gives Putin Alaska. Which he PROBABLY won’t, but the fact that it’s not a 100% certainty is not ideal…
That’s the stupidest shit I’ve heard so far lmao
What points to Alaska being given up? What world does this happen in?
Reality is faaaar stupider than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.
The world where Putin is saying that it belongs to Russia and Trump is Putin’s bitch. AKA possibly this one.
I’m sure we’ll be in a Hunt for Red October situation eventually.
Another poster suggested a Russian disinformation campaign, I would suggest a more home-grown hate faction that was grown from the poll-watcher contingent. They culled and sifted lists of people that were most likely to “spoil the vote” and had nothing else to do do but harass people.
Ya I did, it probably is, thanks for bringing this up. We need to get the word out! Fuck misinformation!
“Some recipients reported being told they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp,” the agency said.
How is anyone supposed to believe this? Oh wait, I remember. Because it was voted for.
It’s exactly that threat that is why we are emigrating. If my daughter were marched into a conversion therapy camp, I would never forgive myself.
Hey, we get what we voted for. Our only hope is that people stand up to them. But I won’t hold my breath.
Just so everyone is absolutely clear, AT&t, Verizon, etc, are 1000%
(If it)* Was not the sale of that information to unscrupulous parties, it was a lack of proper configurations and security measures to prevent that information from leaking.
Edit: a word or two.
Uh oh, did you accidentally the whole thing?
Yup, he accidentally the whole coke bottle’d.
Username @foggy@lemmy.world checks out
Now, how does the FBI know? Surely they’re not reading our texts, are they?
You know SMS is not encrypted
The FBI has a phone number (actually more than one). People call it. I don’t think we need to invent conspiracy theories.
Nah that’s clearly the NSAs job
