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Anti-Tech Extremism Worries the Same Federal Government That's Been Fueling Anti-Tech Extremism

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.27.2026 11:45 AM

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Anti-tech extremists are beginning to worry federal law enforcement authorities. Wired obtained "more than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers" that detail plans to keep an eye on this new category of supposed domestic threat.

It's hard to know where to begin here. Maybe with that meme about the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party?

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For years, the federal government and politicians from both parties have been stoking broad and hysterical anti-tech sentiment. They have hauled tech CEOs before Congress and blamed them for everything from sex trafficking to teenage suicide, politically motivated violence, Donald Trump winning or not winning elections, and much more.

The government may not have single-handedly created anti-tech extremism, but it's been a prime kindler of it. In an attempt to gain more control over online speech and online activities, authorities have spent the past decade fueling an anti-tech wildfire. Now they're concerned?

Well, maybe. As Wired points out, there could be something more going on here.

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