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Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook
Chaos in Washington, DC, is forcing some to move to new platforms.
“To my knowledge DOGE itself does not have access to any of these types of legal requests — it would have to have the assistance of a law enforcement agency like the FBI,” Crocker told The Verge in an email. In fact, Twitter (pre-Musk) fought a request by the Department of Homeland Security in 2017 that attempted to unmask an anonymous “alt-gov” account that was critical of policies during the first Trump administration. “When you have companies that are functioning as large data dragnets, they could be an incredibly rich target for agencies trying to investigate or retaliate against federal employees,” said Darío Maestro, senior legal fellow at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.
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