She posted about ICE. Five months later, DHS agents told her to take her post down

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She posted about ICE. Five months later, DHS agents told her to take her post down

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. …

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 . The Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not respond to questions about the voicemail or what happened next. Gonyea's encounter with federal agents was first reported by Syracuse.com . Gonyea says she called the agent back and told him she was working at a polling site that day. …

Original source: NPR News

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