Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

[applegrove]

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.
By Mike Pearl
Published February 15, 2026

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.

Those three companies, plus Discord, have received “hundreds” of such requests that have come from DHS recently. Meta, it should be noted, is the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

Administrative subpoenas used for this purpose represent an escalation. This tool, which comes not from a judge but from DHS itself, was formerly reserved for situations like child abductions, according to the Times.

The users were targeted because their posts “criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents,” the Times says.

[Jack Valentino]

1. Posts "criticized ICE"........ well, that's a damned big pool.... I only WISH I had been

able to point to the location of ICE agents..... !

(but not too many in Michigan, at least YET!)

[Deuxcents]

2. The reasons for targeted users is just the beginning..the doors are closing for more of our rights

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I imagine DU and similar sites are obvious sources for DHS also.

The responses appear to be growing seriously grim for any anti fascist behavior now.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. They've got to fill...

all of those shiny, new detention camps with somebody.

[mzmolly]

4. I Hope those who had their information

turned over are able to sue for damages. This is F'd up!

[usonian]

5. Recommend Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? (YouTube video) with transscript

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220986886

Their unconstitutional powers need to be stifled. along with the entire operation.

AND STOP USING GOOGLE AND REDDIT AND META and all its subsidiaries.