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Whistleblowers Say FBI ‘Pressured & Incentivized’ Agents To Classify Cases As Domestic Terrorism

July 28, 2022 8:39 am

New whistleblower information reveals that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as “domestic violent extremism” (DVE) despite lacking the criteria to meet such a classification. Whistleblower disclosures have also detailed the agency’s effort to exaggerate DVE data to satisfy the …

Russia Opens Criminal Case and Calls to Classify Facebook Meta as ‘Extremist Organization’ – All Services Including Instagram and Whatsapp Will be Banned in Russia

March 13, 2022 9:19 am

The Russian government moved to categorize the social media giant Meta Platform as an ‘extremist organization’ after an internal email showed that it would temporarily allow its users to call for violence and murder against Russian nationals. Earlier this month, …

Sixth Circuit: ATF Cannot Classify Bump Stocks as Machine Guns

March 26, 2021 3:00 pm

A case against the ban was filed in the United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, Southern Division, on December 26, 2018 — the same day that the ATF’s bump stock rule was put forward. Plaintiffs contended the ATF could not …