Post #1140713

2026-03-20 13:16 UTC

This is total alarmist misinformation. The "evidence of terrorism" was not "using Signal" or "carrying a first aid kit", it was taking part in an armed assault on an immigration facility where a dozen people set off fireworks and shot a police officer with an AR-15. The prosecution used the *presence* of the first aid kit they carried during their armed assault, along with *actual messages* (not metadata) from a Signal chat to make the case that the attackers planned on using violence. There are a lot of problems with this case, IMO the most dangerous part here is that adds legitimacy the (false) idea that "antifa" is an organization that exists. Something the Trump administration has been struggling to prove. This X post takes small details out of context. 1. Don't trust anything *ever* posted to X. *Especially* something that discourages the use of private messaging apps. 2. I highly recommend everyone report this this post to your admins and strongly recommend all instance admins ban/warn accounts like OP. If we want the fediverse to catch on it needs to be more factual, not knee jer.

Replies (7)

@Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 13:44

> it was taking part in an armed assault on an immigration facility where a dozen people set off fireworks and shot a police officer with an AR-15. based

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@SARGE@startrek.website 2026-03-20 13:42

> The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried Insane bullshit. I have a kit with me every day of my life, and I've had to refill it many times due to using it on others. It would be pure coincidence that I happen to be carrying a first aid kit on any given day, and if I'm going to a peaceful protest I'm bringing my trauma kit because the *entire fucking world* knows how cops treat protesters.

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@Xaphanos@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 13:22

Thank you for this.

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@yogthos@lemmy.ml 2026-03-20 15:49

Thing is that there are actual privacy respecting messaging apps like SimpleX Chat. Signal isn't one of them. It's run by people associated with US intelligence, it's hosted on a single server based in the US, and it actively harvests phone numbers. It's incredible that people look at this and still claim it's a private messaging app.

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@0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-21 02:48

> along with actual messages (not metadata) from a Signal chat to make the case that the attackers planned on using violence How did they get the actual messages? Signal chats and groups are supposed to be encrypted. I'm curious.

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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-03-21 01:53

Police raised their gun first.

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@mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2026-03-21 00:35

IDK why it is alarmist misinformation to point out that the people doing this have the strongest spyware/phone cracking tools in the world, information about who owns phone numbers, access to AWS (a US military contractor currently being affected by a not insignificant missile-induced service outages), access to Firebase and Apple Websocket (latter has poor encryption and I have heard the former is also insecure), and the ability to physically bring you into custody, then lie about how they got all of these elements together in whatever order to get you behind bars. But of course the idea of actually doing something about the gestapo in your country just fills you with indignation apparently. X is actually the only place that you can still hear from a lot of people, like Julie K Brown a Miami Herald journalist writing about Jeffrey Epstein's associates and their victims, thousands of foreign journalists. That probably isn't important to you since it isn't about Star Trek and toys. I get all of the posts through a server called RSSHub combined with numerous other websites (like this one), which are piped directly into an actually secure messaging service. I encourage any admins to get my posts hidden from their entire instance. Don't let your users come into my mentions! I wish that blocking instances actually WORKED. 💀

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