The Department of Homeland Security is targeting several social-media accounts that posted a video of a Border Patrol agent — with an activist behind one of the accounts questioning if the federal government is trying to suppress free speech.

Sherman Austin, who lives in Long Beach and is the creator and programmer of the Stop ICE Raids Alert Network , received a message from Meta on Sept. 5 that said a law enforcement agency was seeking information about his Instagram account.

Back in February Austin created Stop ICE, a website that relies on crowd-sourced information to alert users to immigration activity in their communities across the country.

After obtaining a copy of the subpoena, Austin learned that the Department of Homeland Security requested information about several Instagr

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