{"id":18935,"date":"2026-04-12T23:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-us-government-wants-reddit-to-snitch-on-one-of-its-users-through-a-grand-jury\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:58:44","slug":"the-us-government-wants-reddit-to-snitch-on-one-of-its-users-through-a-grand-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-us-government-wants-reddit-to-snitch-on-one-of-its-users-through-a-grand-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"The US government wants Reddit to snitch on one of its users through a grand jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a certain Redditor in its crosshairs and it&rsquo;s now strong-arming the social media platform to reveal who they are with a grand jury subpoena, according to a report from <em>The Intercept<\/em>. The nonprofit news outlet was able to obtain the subpoena that ordered Reddit to provide info on one of its users who&rsquo;s been accused of criticizing ICE by April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">According to the report, ICE has been trying to identify this Redditor for a month without success. More specifically, Reddit is being asked to give up the user&rsquo;s name, address, phone number and other personal data. <em>The Intercept <\/em>reported that the subpoena was issued by federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. after a failed attempt from ICE to do the same through a federal court in Northern California, which has jurisdiction in San Francisco where Reddit is headquartered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Reddit attorneys said their client&rsquo;s posts and anonymity are protected under the First Amendment and described ICE&rsquo;s use of a grand jury as &ldquo;a disturbing escalation,&rdquo; according to the report. Reddit didn&rsquo;t state if it would challenge the government&rsquo;s order or not, according to <em>The Intercept<\/em>, but it did provide a statement saying, &ldquo;privacy is central to how Reddit operates and we take our commitment to protecting that seriously.&rdquo; Reddit also said in the statement that it does &ldquo;not voluntarily share information with any government, especially not on users exercising their rights to criticize the government or plan a protest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_dd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_ld9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">While this grand jury subpoena could set an alarming precedent, it&rsquo;s not the first time a government agency has requested social media platforms reveal accounts that have spoke negatively about ICE. According to a <em>New York Times<\/em> report, the Department of Homeland Security has filed hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Discord, Meta and even Reddit again, for identifying details about its users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>The US government wants Reddit to snitch on one of its users through a grand jury<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a certain Redditor in its crosshairs and it&rsquo;s now strong-arming the social media platform to reveal who they are with a grand jury subpoena, according to a report from The Intercept. The nonprofit news outlet was able to obtain the subpoena that ordered Reddit to provide info on one of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-us-government-wants-reddit-to-snitch-on-one-of-its-users-through-a-grand-jury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The US government wants Reddit to snitch on one of its users through a grand jury&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}