Big Tech is Silencing the ICE Watchers. Plus, Why a Scholar of Antifa Fled the Country.

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Surveilling ICE; a historian forced to flee; and true-crime’s impact on real life.

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0:00.0	You have got two seconds before you're arrested by hindering a federal investigation.
0:05.6	People are using apps like Eyes Up and Red Dot to document ice activities.
0:11.3	Meanwhile, the government is playing whack-a-mole to get them taken down.
0:15.2	Apple complied, and that sort of sets off this domino effect, where Google then removes red dot.
0:22.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Onger.
0:26.3	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Also this week, after Trump declared Antifa, a domestic terrorist organization,
0:33.5	conspiracy theorists targeted a professor who studies Antifa.
0:38.4	Then the death threats started.
0:39.7	I got an email from some random person saying they were going to kill me in front of my students.
0:44.3	Plus, an incarcerated journalist on how true crime flattens reality.
0:49.2	Many of these people don't sleep to murder.
0:51.3	They wake up grateful for all the prisons.
0:53.5	We don't see the humanity.
0:55.6	It's all coming up after this.
0:59.9	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.4	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:04.7	And I'm Michael Lollinger.
1:06.4	What happens when you pour nearly $29 billion into a militarized law enforcement agency with
1:12.7	little to know oversight or accountability?
1:15.8	Authorities in Los Angeles County declaring a state of emergency over federal immigration
1:20.1	rates.
1:21.1	There are concerns about the amount of force that federal agents are using against protesters
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