More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests describe a national shift toward surveilling a broad new category of people and activities. The effort is linked to National Security Presidential Memo 7, which directs the Department of Justice to target individuals holding anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-capitalism beliefs, and to a counterterrorism strategy that prioritizes left-wing extremism. Together, these directives are described as expanding domestic surveillance to monitor and criminalize speech and assembly that challenges White House ideology. A New York intelligence report warns that AI adoption could trigger widespread upheaval and introduces a new term for the alleged emerging extremism threat.
"More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by WIRED show a national shift taking place to surveil this new and worryingly broad category of people and activities deemed an emerging threat."
"This new effort follows President Donald Trump's National Security Presidential Memo 7, which instructs the Department of Justice to target anyone holding anti-American, anti-Christian, and "anti-capitalism beliefs." Earlier this month, Trump's counterterrorism czar, Sebastian Gorka, released a public counterterrorism strategy claiming that left-wing extremists are one of the three top counterterrorism priorities facing the United States."
"Taken together, these Trump administration directives have commandeered the domestic surveillance apparatus to surveil and criminalize speech and assembly that challenges the ideology of the White House. A new focus on anti-technology extremism adds an unreported category to already public designations under a presidency that has heavily invested political and material capital in AI and data center proliferation."
"Among the documents in the tranche obtained by WIRED is a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat."
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