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Trump Admin Attacks Reddit to Get User's Data that Speak Out Against Him?

IHIP News

Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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We are joined by journalist Ryan Devereaux to discuss the Trump admin's war on Redditors who talk ill of ICE.


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0:00.0

All right, this MAGA regime likes to flood the zone.

0:07.9

And thankfully, there are so many incredible journalists in the United States doing incredible

0:13.1

work exposing the fascism and the erosion of civil liberties.

0:18.6

And here to discuss his reporting with me as Ryan Devereaux.

0:22.6

He's an investigative journalist and fellow at Type Media Center.

0:26.6

He's out with an incredible piece for The Intercept titled a Redditor criticized ICE.

0:34.6

Trump is trying to unmask them by dragging the company to a secret grand jury,

0:39.3

and he's here to discuss it with us. Ryan, welcome to iHIP news. This is really disturbing,

0:45.1

and there's just so many stories out there that I want to highlight how just a random

0:50.8

Redditor can be in the crosshairs of this fascist regime.

0:55.0

Well, thanks so much for having me.

0:58.0

Yeah, we published a story last week on The Intercept, which looks at this case that you described,

1:03.0

where a person had been hosting on Reddit, the government didn't identify exactly what the

1:09.0

offending post was, but their lawyers have surmised

1:12.8

that it was likely to do with ICE and the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

1:17.6

Sort of a bit of backstory over the past year since the Trump administration came in.

1:22.0

They've been sending a ton of what are known as administrative subpoenas to different digital media companies.

1:29.9

So the big social media companies, MetaX and Reddit, and requesting data on anonymous

1:36.8

accounts that post related to immigration enforcement.

1:40.2

These are accounts that are sometimes tracking ice operations in the streets, naming agents

1:46.0

who are often masked.

1:48.2

The government claims that this is doxing and that this is a threat to officer safety.

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