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Jan. 6 Hearings Point Finger at Donald Trump. But Federal Prosecutors Haven’t Gone That Far.

The Intercept Briefing

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Are Sedition Hunters Identifiable?

I find it really exceptional and wildly uncomfortable that kind of a unaccountable, untrained, self appointed folks have just begun identifying people on the internet based on super greate evidence. And for me, the larger point is that identifying someone on the inner net in that way does not make you accountable to a community. I do think this kind of proliferation of sedition hunters type things is really problematic for a variety of reasons but one of the reasons is that its blurring this line between people who were trying to de stabilize and deter far right activity and people who were basically doing free, unpaid intern ships for the fbi. But i think people need to be honest with themselves tat that's

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