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Government Corruption
FBI Contractor Created Fake Online IDs to Join Chatrooms Run by Groups Organizing Against Vaccine Mandates
2023-05-17
[The Defender] An FBI surveillance contractor infiltrated the chatrooms of two airline industry groups opposed to vaccine mandates to collect intelligence on the groups’ organizing activities, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.

The contractor, Flashpoint, which in the past infiltrated Islamic terror groups, now focuses on "anti-vaccine" groups and other domestic political organizations, according to Fang.

In a webinar presentation for clients last year, which Fang analyzed on his Substack, Flashpoint analyst Vlad Cuiujuclu demonstrated his company’s methods for identifying and entering encrypted Telegram chat groups.

He explained how the company attempted to join chatrooms of transportation workers resisting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Fang described the presentation:
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Putting Title 50 to good use, I see.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-05-17 15:34  

#9  The trolls call us "elderly keyboard commandos." I'm sure that's good cover.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-05-17 15:27  

#8  "Nay, no longer an agent, retired 2 months ago."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-05-17 14:50  

#7  The target folders are indexed by threat

So, Rantburgers fall in the 'old, fat, white, do nothing' threat folder?
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-17 12:57  

#6  An FBI surveillance contractor

Using contractors to provide plausible deniability? As in "None of our agents are involved in surveilling anti-vaccine groups".
Posted by: SteveS   2023-05-17 12:03  

#5  Ref #3: These new tools are too complex for my simple mind. Unless I can use Analyst Notebook (AnB) and/or Palantir, I'll be of no help to you.

Posted by: Besoeker   2023-05-17 11:51  

#4  Of course they did, because freedom loving Americans are terrorists...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2023-05-17 11:35  

#3  The target folders are indexed by threat, but the threat matrix includes a heavy emphasis on domestic political affiliation , and the "wire-tap" file is the intimidation/suppression mechanism for wrong-think that becomes too vocal.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-05-17 11:29  

#2  Yep, and they've got plenty o' goods on me (as well as most of us I'm sure) Hell, there's even a photo published by AP that shows me taking direct action against one of their preferred militias. Silver lining is they've just too many targets to deal with currently to target all of us in rubes.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-05-17 11:14  

#1  You may safely assume your computer activity is being monitored. If not monitored, archived for on-going or future AI key word or phrase searches.

Collection Management.... 'the next frontier.'


Posted by: Besoeker   2023-05-17 10:48  

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