DOJ Is Using A Grand Jury To Force Reddit To Unmask An Anonymous User

DOJ Is Using A Grand Jury To Force Reddit To Unmask An Anonymous User

The government’s reliance on grand juries to bring charges against activists, protesters, and the president’s personal enemies has been misplaced. Increasingly, grand juries are refusing to give the government what it wants: rubber-stamped indictments that will allow it to move forward with vindictive prosecutions. But there’s still something grand juries offer that regular courts can’t: secrecy. If the government doesn’t want the public to know…

A grand jury is trying to force Reddit to unmask a user who criticised ICE

On the evening of 7 January 2026, ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, in Minneapolis. Within days, Ross was named publicly: The Intercept identified him and published biographical details, and other news organisations followed. Across Reddit, users discussed the shooting, the officer, and the agency. One of them is now […] This story continues at The Next Web

The US Government Is Trying to Unmask a Reddit user—and It's Not Going Well

Reddit is a treasure trove of information. This is why many AI companies have been scraping their data to train their models. But now, it seems that Reddit is being pressured by the US government to unmask a user on its platform. US government wants Reddit to reveal user information According to a report from The Intercept, Reddit has been served a subpoena that orders the platform to reveal a user who has been critical of the US government’s im…

Ask A Genius 1597: ICE Use of Force, Video Evidence, and Minneapolis Protests

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/01/09 Did the ICE officer’s use of force in the killing of Renée Nicole Good meet policy and legal standards? Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine the killing of Renée Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and poet shot by an ICE officer in […]