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Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing the Air Force’s troubling new domestic surveillance program in USA TODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/03/22/air-force-academy-social-media-monitoring-tool/73035142007/

Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing the latest developments in Georgia's outrageous crackdown on the ‘Cop City’ forest defense protests. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/03/cop-city-protesters-homeland-security-letter

Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing our latest: Georgia is seeking to define ‘Cop City’ forest defense protests as terrorism. Documents & commentary from us. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/28/georgia-cop-city-atlanta-protests

Georgia is seeking to define ‘Cop City’ forest defense protests as terrorism. Documents & commentary from us.

Georgia is seeking to define ‘Cop City’ protests as terrorism, experts say Actions by police match rhetoric from state politicians seeking to define a largely peaceful protest movement as terrorism

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Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing our latest: FBI caught lying to Congress re its alleged inability to monitor Jan. 6 plotters online, while also using "social media exploitation" teams to heavily surveil protests. As revealed in documents we obtained and shared w/ USA TODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/01/fbi-social-media-surveillance/7947126001/

FBI caught lying to Congress re its alleged inability to monitor Jan. 6 plotters online, while also using "social media exploitation" teams to heavily surveil protests. As revealed in new documents we obtained and shared w/ USA TODAY.

FBI agents monitor social media. As domestic threats rise, the question is who they're watching After the search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, surge of domestic extremist threats raises fresh questions about who the bureau really watches online.

Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing our latest: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lgbtq-fbi-patriot-front-proud-boys-1375145/

New details on the Patriot Front arrests in Idaho, including FBI involvement for over a year, as revealed in new documents we obtained and shared with Rolling Stone.

FBI Eyed White Nationalist 'Patriot Front' for a Year, Documents Show The recent arrest of 31 fascists seemed to come out of nowhere. Newly-released documents show agents from the Bureau on the lookout for a long time

In light of the Department of Homeland Security's fearmongering about a "Night of Rage" in response to the Roe horror, a reminder that the FBI teaches local law enforcement that the pro-choice movement is a violent terrorist threat, as documents we obtained reveal. https://propertyofthepeople.org/2019/01/31/fbi-targeting-pro-choice-movement-as-violent-terrorist-threat/

Dept. of Homeland Security is concerned US neo-Nazis will return from Ukraine with battlefield experience, according to a new DHS/CBP intelligence document we obtained and shared with POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/24/american-fighters-ukraine-white-supremacists-00034860

Homeland Security is worried US neo-Nazis will return from Ukraine with battlefield experience, according to a new DHS/CBP intelligence document we obtained and shared with POLITICO.

Customs and Border Protection bulletin: American fighters headed to Ukraine questioned at U.S. airports The Department of Homeland Security is worried about white supremacists returning to the U.S. with battlefield experience. Critics say it's bought Russia’s propaganda.

Our latest: Climate activist's fight against 'terrorism' sentence could impact the future of protests. ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-activists-fight-terrorism-sentence-impact-future-protests/story?id=84345514

Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing our latest: BIG STORY: FBI caught lying to Congress re its alleged inability to monitor Jan. 6 plotters online, while also using "social media exploitation" teams to heavily surveil protests. As revealed in new documents we obtained and shared w/ Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jan6-fbi-social-media-privacy-black-lives-matter-1337565/

BIG STORY: FBI caught lying to Congress re its alleged inability to monitor Jan. 6 plotters online, while also using "social media exploitation" teams to heavily surveil protests. As revealed in new documents we obtained and shared w/ Rolling Stone.

FBI Documents Expose Bureau's Big Jan. 6 'Lie' The bureau says it lacked the authority to monitor social media activity ahead of the pro-Trump insurrection, but it did exactly that during 2020 racial justice and police violence protests

Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing our latest: Texas intelligence center warns of ecoterrorism based on environmental activist's appearance on a New Yorker podcast, as revealed in new document we obtained and shared w/ POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/03/new-yorker-podcast-andreas-malm-523705

Texas intelligence center warns of ecoterrorism based on environmental activist's appearance on a New Yorker podcast, as revealed in new document we obtained and shared w/ POLITICO.

How to blow up a podcast A Texas intel bulletin on a New Yorker podcast with a fringe environmentalist raises concerns over defining domestic terrorism.

Our executive director, Ryan Shapiro, discussing our latest. We got an FBI training document on obtaining data from secure messaging apps, and shared it with Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/whatsapp-imessage-facebook-apple-fbi-privacy-1261816/

This Giving Tuesday, stand up for democracy. Help us fight for transparency by making our January 6 Project, and all our work exposing fascism masquerading as security, possible. Property of the People is shining desperately needed light in the darkness, but we can't do this work without your generous help!

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We got an FBI training document on obtaining data from secure messaging apps, and shared it w/ Rolling Stone.

FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data -- in Real Time A previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone reveals that “private” messaging apps WhatsApp and iMessage are deeply vulnerable to law-enforcement searches