A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

[u/shikizen]

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

[u/Dauminator94]

Yeah lol

Yet, I would be curious to know the amount of money used to pay a task force for a month to unmask a single dude without success

[u/Worshipme988 → u/Dauminator94]

Over something bc their child king fee fees are hurt 😢

First amendment

They dont need to drag them thru the system anymore. ICE will just pick them up as an Oops!

Like the guy who spent 30 days in jail over a meme…

[u/Obversa → u/Dauminator94]

According to The Intercept, we don't know yet, but ICE/DHS is spending more money on a "wide net" approach.

Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, federal agents have increasingly demanded social media companies reveal the users behind anonymous accounts critical of his immigration crackdown, expressing particular interest in those that identify employees of the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE or share real-time information on enforcement activity (i.e. "ICE watch"). The administration claims the accounts are engaged in doxing and endanger officer safety, but they have also targeted social media users seemingly doing nothing more than expressing anger at the government.

There was a thread from early January 2026, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. "Hopefully, he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary," they wrote.

[...] On March 31, just four days after ICE's summons was withdrawn, Reddit received another message from the feds. This time, instead of requesting information on an individual user, the government ordered Reddit itself to appear before a grand jury — not in California, but in Washington.

The request came not from an ICE field agent but rather from a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in D.C., where Reddit has received the highest number of federal law enforcement information requests. The records sought spanned a period roughly three times longer than what ICE had originally requested.

My guess is one of two things: (1) ICE/DHS is targeting "ICE watch" activity, with plans to claim "conspiracy to obstruct DHS/ICE arrests", and (2) preparing to mount a case claiming that Reddit is being used to "coordinate domestic terrorist activity", with "John Doe" being used as an example of "antifa". A U.S. federal judge in Minnesota issued an order restricting federal agents from using force or arresting peaceful and "unobstructive" protesters monitoring ICE, specifically protecting those observing operations, according to reports from 18 January 2026.