Your new Facebook ‘friend’ may be the FBI

Agents are logging on to exchange messages with suspects, and more


By Richard Lardner

AP News
updated 2 hours, 56 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.



U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.



Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI.



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