Summary
The FBI is investigating a surge of anonymous racist and offensive text messages targeting Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities following last week’s election.
Messages have included threats of deportation, re-education camps, or being forced into plantation labor.
While no violence has resulted, the texts, sent via services like TextNow, have prompted collaboration between the FBI, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and local authorities.
Advocacy groups like LULAC and the NAACP condemned the harassment, citing it as a troubling resurgence of hate rhetoric emboldened by recent political developments.
Now, how does the FBI know? Surely they’re not reading our texts, are they?
You know SMS is not encrypted
The FBI has a phone number (actually more than one). People call it. I don’t think we need to invent conspiracy theories.
Nah that’s clearly the NSAs job