DHS officials told a NY woman to take down post about ICE agent – NPR

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly . Paigelynne Gonyea has more than 100,000 followers on TikTok, where she posts a mix of comedy and skincare product reviews. On Instagram, where she has more than 33,000 followers, she occasionally posts about politics — including about violence committed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last winter. This past Tuesday, Gonyea wasn’t on her phone. It was Election Day in New York, and she was working the polls at the Central Library in Syracuse. While she was there, she got a voicemail from someone identifying himself as a Homeland Security special agent calling from a New Jersey number. “We were just by your apartment,” the caller said, adding he had gotten her phone number from her significant other. “We were just calling you in reference to a post that we believe you made on Instagram where you doxxed an ICE agent back in January.” Gonyea denied to NPR she had ever doxxed an ICE agent. Doxxing usually refers to releasing sensitive personal information such as addresses and phone numbers. However, the Trump administration has tried in recent months to broaden the definition. In a statement to NPR that came
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