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Big Brother Town Department Paid to Spy on Private Social Media Posts That Do Not Align With Woke Beliefs

The Office of Digital Government in Gilbert, Arizona, has issued reprimands against town employees who support President Donald Trump and law enforcement.
Big Brother Town Department Paid to Spy on Private Social Media Posts That Do Not Align With Woke Beliefs
Gilbert, AZ is home to a town department whose practices have been likened to George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984." Photo Credit: World of Arizona
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
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Under a policy being likened to something out of George Orwell’s iconic novel “1984,” a town in Arizona is paying out more than a million dollars in salaries to employ spies to monitor private social media posts of town employees for anything that aligns with conservative views.

Although the Gilbert Office of Digital Government (ODG) has urged town workers to support LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter (BLM) causes, it reprimanded a local firefighter for posting a picture of himself on Facebook posing with a life-sized cutout of former President Donald Trump.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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