FBI considers your retweets to be endorsements. Could land you in jail

Reminder: headlines are rarely truly representative of the article beneath them.

Of course they will use tweets, retweets, and other signals as data that help inform them about a person of interest. Why is this surprising? This person was not arrested for a retweet which is what the headline implies. They were arrested for showing support for ISIL in a number of ways and contacting people to arrange or trying to arrange to join them.

I'm no huge fan of the NSA itself or many government practices that I feel are an overreach, but this isn't one of them.