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.
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?
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.
Now, how does the FBI know? Surely they’re not reading our texts, are they?
Nah that’s clearly the NSAs job
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!
Just so everyone is absolutely clear, AT&t, Verizon, etc, are 1000%
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.
“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.
Hey, we get what we voted for. Our only hope is that people stand up to them. But I won’t hold my breath.
