On Trump’s Truth Social, anti-FBI sentiment builds with little oversight
Posts on Truth Social in which users call for civil war and advocate for violence against the FBI remained online Friday, some of them days after they were
Posts on Truth Social in which users call for civil war and advocate for violence against the FBI remained online Friday, some of them days after they were originally posted, according to a search by NBC News.
Truth Social, the Twitter-like social media platform backed by former President Donald Trump's media and technology company, was thrust into the national spotlight Thursday after it was found that Ricky Shiffer, the man who attempted to break into an Ohio FBI building with a nail gun while armed with a rifle, had posted violent threats against the FBI on the platform.
Shiffer's profile was no longer publicly available as of Thursday night, but posts from other users that contained similar vitriol were still visible Friday.
Armed man who fired weapon into FBI field office was at Capitol riotAug. 12, 202201:49“Is the fbi provoking the 80 million patriots to start a civil war?” one user wrote a day before the attack. Another wrote, “They need to be real careful!” They just might get what their looking for!”
"The Democrats/FBI have declared war," another user wrote Thursday. "Lock and load. Take these traders out."
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