Meta blocks hyperlinks to ICE Record, a Wiki that names brokers

Meta has began blocking hyperlinks to ICE Record, a web site that compiles details about incidents involving Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol brokers, and lists hundreds of their staff’ names. It appears that evidently the latter element is what prompted Meta to take motion in a transfer that was first reported by Wired.

ICE Record is a crowdsourced Wiki that describes itself as “an independently maintained public documentation mission targeted on immigration-enforcement exercise” within the US. “Its function is to report, manage, and protect verifiable details about enforcement actions, brokers, amenities, automobiles, and associated incidents that may in any other case stay fragmented, troublesome to entry, or undocumented,” its web site states.

Together with notable incidents, the web site additionally lists the names of particular person brokers related to ICE, CBP and different DHS businesses. In response to Wired, the web site’s creators stated a lot of that info had come from a “leak,” although it seems to be based mostly largely on public LinkedIn profiles. As Wired notes:

The location went viral earlier this month when it claimed to have uploaded a leaked listing of 4,500 DHS staff to its web site, however a WIRED evaluation discovered that the listing relied closely on info the staff shared publicly about themselves on websites equivalent to LinkedIn.

Hyperlinks to ICE Record have been spreading broadly for a number of weeks, together with on Meta’s platforms. There are quite a few hyperlinks to the web site on Threads, a few of which return a number of weeks. Now although, clicking on previously-shared hyperlinks as a substitute ends in a message that the hyperlink cannot be opened. Customers who attempt to share new hyperlinks on Threads or Fb additionally see error messages. “Posts that seem like spam based on our Group Pointers are blocked on Fb and cannot be edited,” the discover says.

When reached for remark, a Meta spokesperson pointed to the corporate’s privateness coverage barring the disclosure of personally identifiable info (PII). The corporate did not handle why it selected to start out blocking the web site after a number of weeks, or whether or not it considers public LinkedIn profiles to be in violation of its guidelines in opposition to doxxing.

It’s, nonetheless, not the primary time Meta has opted to take away customers’ posts monitoring details about ICE actions. The social community beforehand took down a Fb group that tracked ICE sightings in Chicago after pressure from the Justice Division.

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