It is not a conspiracy, the feds ARE reading your tweets, sleuthing your IG to identify people at protests.
They literally had a truck in the parade of the last pride I went to, trying to recruit with an all-black incident response van and a bunch of their youngest employees with colorfully dyed hair. ACAB includes the feds.
I really encourage everyone to read the article in the OP. Yes, it’s depressing and frightening to learn about folks getting got, but knowing the techniques LE investigators use is crucial for keeping you and your comrades safe.
>Across the United States, federal and local authorities were combing social sites for scraps of information, disseminating alarmist notices about “revolutionary anti-capitalist” gatherings, suburban candlelight vigils, and children’s peace marches.