“In the second half of 2025, the company received three Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subpoenas seeking account information from 11 users who posted content critical of ICE.”
Reddit objected on First Amendment grounds and the requests were withdrawn. Meta challenged ICE’s statutory authority over subpoenas aimed at unmasking accounts that tracked immigration enforcement. Both worked, which proves the pushback is cheap and effective when a company bothers. The word doing the work in that headline is “privately.” Fighting quietly means the next agency to try does not know the odds.