FBI trawled Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show.
Avery is one of four known people across the United States indicted on charges of incitement to riot solely on the basis of social media posts, according to federal court records. One man was charged for posting a crude napalm recipe that is widely available online. His charges were dropped several days later.
Taken together, the cases offer some insight into how federal law enforcement continues to monitor online speech related to social movements and pursue what legal experts say is a fairly aggressive approach to prosecution.Court records show that FBI agents had seized on a post from May 29 in which Avery described a “red action” he was organizing for the next night, a term commonly used in activist circles to indicate that protesters may be violently confronted by police or arrested.
Suarez said she did not expect such a sudden reversal for her client, and underscored that there was no plea deal.Avery was charged with a rarely-invoked
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