No Big Deal, Just the FBI Interrogating Citizens About Their Social Media Posts

Just your government checking up on you, nothing to worry about.

Just think of the FBI as a big, friendly "big brother" looking out for you, making sure you don't get into trouble.

FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts "It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.

Matthew Petti

The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.

Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.

Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.

"Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.

"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.

"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."

The report says it's unclear whether Meta, FaceBook's parent company, reported the posts to the FBI or if the FBI's teams of surveillance operatives found them themselves.

For the past week, she has made multiple angry posts per day about the war in Gaza, referring to Israel as "Israhell." But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.

I know this person is on the other side of the aisle but the left often stages "test cases" where, for example, they'll prosecute a black killer for a hate crime, just to prove that the right is lying when they say hate crime laws will be used to target white people. Then, after the case survives judicial review, they use the law for what it was always intended for, to increase jail sentences for white people exclusively.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:24 PM

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