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Feds reportedly used fake cell towers to track journalist's producer

Original: Overzealous & fascist:🚨"Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt Don Lemon’s producer, a 21-year-old college st

Federal investigators obtained warrants to use cell-site simulators — so-called stingray devices that mimic cell towers — to locate a 21-year-old college student who works as Don Lemon's producer. Court filings indicate authorities also sought to use the surveillance technology against a journalist and a state Senate candidate. Critics are calling the practice overzealous and authoritarian, arguing it shows law enforcement deploying invasive surveillance tools against members of the press and political figures.

Why now: Claims of federal surveillance targeting journalists and political candidates have raised fresh concerns about press freedom and government overreach.

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• Overzealous & fascist:🚨"Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt Don Lemon’s producer, a 21-year-old college student. They also🚨sought to use the technology against a journalist and a state Senate candidate." This criminal regime will literally do ANYTHING to further… · KimPerales@toad.social · 15

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