Writer Investigated for Suspicious Online Searches Utilizes New Storytelling 'Medium'
Michele Catalano said she was at work when she received a call from her husband that "six agents from the joint terrorism task force" had pulled up outside their home to interrogate the family after receiving a tip that someone had been searching for backpacks and pressure cooker bombs online.
Michele Catalano said she was at work when she received a call from her husband that “six agents from the joint terrorism task force” had pulled up outside their home to interrogate the family after receiving a tip that someone had been searching for backpacks and pressure cooker bombs online.
Her story went viral after she posted it on Medium earlier today, but the blog post raised more questions than it answered.
Did the FBI really appear at her doorstep? Who was monitoring her browser history and why? Is the government monitoring our online activity so closely that any one of us can be investigated in our homes for no reason?
Faced with criticism and doubt from the Twittersphere, Catalano, a writer for Death and Taxes, defended her version of events and told the press via Twitter that she would not be giving interviews.
I’ll say it once: I didn’t make it up.
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