ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

Posted by throwaway81523 10/27/2025

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media(jacobin.com)

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Hizonner 10/27/2025|

There should be a bounty pool for the person who can get ICE to do the most stupid, embarrassing thing based on "social media" chaff.

Jacobee 10/27/2025|

>There should be a bounty pool for the person who can get ICE to do the most stupid, embarrassing thing based on "social media" chaff.

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Sanctuary8542 10/27/2025||

Shhhhh...they're listening

october8140 10/27/2025||

How quickly will people make fake AI accounts for real people?

hereme888 10/27/2025||

Don't all agencies pretty much do social media surveillance in some way?

Why is it surprising if another law enforcement agency like ICE uses it?

UniverseHacker 10/27/2025||

Well, other agencies have mostly used things like this to collect evidence against real crimes. ICE is using it to enforce Orwellian "thought crimes" where they are revoking visas and green cards, and then often just minutes or hours later violently kidnapping people for their political views. Over 6,000 USA college students so far have had their visas revoked and been targeted by ICE officers, for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech and freedom of association.

Ylpertnodi 10/27/2025|||

>Why is it surprising if another law enforcement agency like ICE uses it?

I think the nuance is how they'll use the information: less random pick-ups (and associated crowds), versus more targetted swoops.

saubeidl 10/27/2025|||

ICE is not law enforcement.

They are thugs that see themselves as above the law.

hereme888 10/27/2025||

"United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the supervision of the United States Department of Homeland Security." Since 2002.

saubeidl 10/27/2025||

Sure, that's what they call themselves.

And the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy :)

sixothree 10/27/2025|||

Agencies with checks and balances maybe. But this is extra-legal in so many ways.

CamelCaseName 10/27/2025|||

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lazzlazzlazz 10/27/2025||

It is not surprising nor particularly novel. But consider the people upvoting this are supporting a sensationalistic and dishonest Jacobin article right now. Of course it doesn't make sense.

phs318u 10/27/2025||

.. . in the la-and of the freeee, and the ho-ome of the brave!

lunias 10/27/2025||

Do they mean immigrants or illegal immigrants? Do they mean citizens, permanent residents, or some other status?

I'm very anti-surveillance, this shouldn't be allowed, but I feel like a lot of articles are being disingenuous by means of this omission. Is this a problem that only affects immigrants? It doesn't seem that way to me, but by presenting it that way they knowingly divide people and thus make it less likely that a group will prevent or reverse this action. These are the types of articles I'd write if I wanted this issue to drop off the radar of a large portion of the voting population.

JuniperMesos 10/27/2025|

Many of the news-reporting institutions who report negative things about US government enforcement of immigration law have an ideological problem with the existence of laws restricting immigration to first-world countries like the US; and one of the ways this manifests itself is by referring to people who are negatively affected by US government enforcement of immigration law as "immigrants", and deliberately avoiding specifying whether those people are illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, permanent residents, etc.

reaperducer 10/27/2025||

Go nuts, ICE. I haven't been on social media in over a decade.

Feel free to get your undies in a bundle over my "I'm on a MF-in' boat" FourSquare check-in.

Rule #1 of staying off the radar: Don't deliberately put yourself on the radar.

tomhow 10/27/2025||

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Slava_Propanei 10/27/2025|

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