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In February 2017, rumors began to appear of an ominous warning on Facebook that seemed to target protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. The warning apparently reads as follows: A commenter on one popular version of the claim pointed out an inherent logical flaw: CISPA lingered in limbo until December 2015. In the course of the passage of a budget omnibus bill, an amended version known as CISA (the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, not to be confused with CISPA) was added as a rider to other legislation. The consolidated spending bill was signed into law by President Barack Obama on 18 December 2015. It is incredibly unlikely that federal law enforcement agencies would reference an obsolete bill in purported warnings sent or received in February 2017. We contacted Facebook to ask whether the social media network had warned users that their profile information would be forwarded to the FBI by the Department of Homeland Security over posts or content related to Standing Rock protests (or if the warning was at all genuine). A representative for Facebook confirmed to us that the screenshot is fake, and no such message exists.
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