At what point do we find out that Parler was actually a law enforcement sting operation?

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...not actually likely, but what a fortunate self-own on a platter for the FBI.

Chad Loder @chadloder · 35m
Parler retained the metadata of every video uploaded to its platform, including GPS location. 68,000 videos in all.

You can reconstruct the DC caravans’ routes and participants.

If you tried to design an app for getting people jammed up, you couldn’t do much better than Parler.

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Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance
At what point do we find out that Parler was actually a law enforcement sting operation?

[RockRaven]

1. It's not. It was Mercer funded to generate even better data about how to make RWNJs dance like

puppets than they had already developed with Cambridge Analytica. And it worked.

Now, by coincidence, it will be as useful as if it had been a sting in the first place... but it wasn't.

[abqtommy]

2. You're right. Mercer money doesn't fund law-enforcement operations. At least not intentionally,

but it sure looks like it did!

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4. you're right, of course

...but tongue-in-cheek, you couldn't conceive a much more effective dragnet.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. GMTA.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214899291

Plant the seed of doubt.

[Ilsa]

5. I don't think law enforcement or intelligence agencies

are allowed to set traps and surveillance for domestic terrorism like this. Some former FBI guys were saying we need new laws for this.

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6. they're absolutely not allowed

...nice of the perps to do it for them.