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 brought on 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 challenge centered on immigration-enforcement exercise” within the US. “Its goal is to document, manage, and protect verifiable details about enforcement actions, brokers, services, autos, and associated incidents that might 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 companies. In response to Wired, the web site’s creators stated a lot of that data had come from a “leak,” although it seems to be primarily based largely on public LinkedIn profiles. As Wired notes:

The positioning went viral earlier this month when it claimed to have uploaded a leaked listing of 4,500 DHS staff to its website, however a WIRED evaluation discovered that the listing relied closely on data the workers shared publicly about themselves on websites akin to LinkedIn.

Hyperlinks to ICE Record have been spreading extensively 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 an alternative 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 appear like spam based on our Neighborhood 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 data (PII). The corporate did not deal with why it selected to begin 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 towards doxxing.

It’s, nevertheless, 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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