Despite these issues, social media surveillance has been used by law enforcement to track, harass, and prosecute members of every major social movement for more than a decade, from the “Occupy” movement in 2011 to Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of Trayvon Martin to the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020 and pro-Palestine protests last year. With its social media surveillance tools and AI systems, the government will be in a position to find artifacts to justify whatever it wants to do—to immigrants, to political activists, to trans people.