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FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors” (theintercept.com)

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A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s had its issues, there’s no doubt about that. But it set the precedent for a new kind of society in 1760. It’s an amazing country.

Also, it didn’t inspire the Nazis, that is a ridiculous comment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What new kind of society? Democracy and representative government are older than the US.

Nazis were literally inspired the US to use Zyklon B from when they used it on immigrants they still

continue to exploit https://www.npr.org/2006/01/28/5176177/the-bath-riots-indignity-along-the-mexican-border

Hitler literally praises the US in mein kampf and jim crow was an inspiration to the Nazi’s https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

its had its issues It still has the issues lol the largest population in prison per capita, no healthcare, no public transportation, shrinking life expectancy, and they’re still occupying tons of countries, still sanctioning cuba for god knows what, still arming tons of dictators and terrorists around the world, etc etc