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'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism

Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.

Click to view the original at vice.com

Hasnain says:

This is so messed up.

“Well after midnight, Los Angeles police made an arrest. In a separate Slack room, employees cautiously began to celebrate: "cop said its an ongoing investigation, this looks like our guy!!!" one employee wrote.

It wasn't Citizen's guy. Frame and the entirety of the Citizen apparatus had spent a whole night putting a bounty on the head of an innocent man. “

Posted on 2021-05-28T06:52:59+0000