FBI Provides Chicago Police With Fake Online Identities for "Social Media Exploitation" Team
Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online.
Mara Hvistendahl
Mara Hvistendahl writes about national security and technology. She was previously an investigative reporter at The Intercept, a National Fellow at New America, and the China bureau chief for Science. Her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Economist, and Wired, and she has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CBS, MSNBC, and NPR.
Mara is the author of “The Scientist and the Spy,” on an FBI counterintelligence investigation involving industrial espionage, and "Unnatural Selection," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Book Prize.
Mara is the author of “The Scientist and the Spy,” on an FBI counterintelligence investigation involving industrial espionage, and "Unnatural Selection," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Book Prize.
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Origins of Covid
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Origins of Covid
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Origins of Covid
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Origins of Covid
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