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  "description": "Want to report your friends and neighbors for extrajudicial kidnapping? The new White House app wants you to get in touch.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-28T13:15:23.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Stevie Bonifield in The Verge",
    "the Wiener Holocaust Library",
    "The Verge reports on a new app from the White House",
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  "textContent": "[Stevie Bonifield in The Verge]\n\nA little history lesson from the Wiener Holocaust Library:\n\n> “In Nazi Germany, some citizens passed on information about their neighbours, family, and friends to the Gestapo . This was called informing. Nazi propaganda presented the Gestapo as an omnipresent , all-seeing, all-knowing group, but in reality there was just one secret police officer for approximately every 10,000 citizens of Nazi Germany. The Gestapo were therefore reliant on a network of thousands of informants.\n>\n> The information passed on by informants typically accused someone of breaking the law or of being a criminal in some way. The information provided was not always based on fact and could often be rumour or suspicion.”\n\nMeanwhile, in _completely unrelated_ news, The Verge reports on a new app from the White House:\n\n> “A new official White House app on Android and iOS takes the content from the White House website and copies it into app format. […] A handful of tabs in the app mostly replicate pages that exist on the Trump Administration’s version of the White House website, including news, livestreams, social feeds, and a gallery. A prominent “Get in Touch” button on the social feeds tab includes an option for users to submit a tip to ICE, which takes them to a tip form on the ICE website.”\n\nWow, am I glad to be living in a time where _everything is normal_ and the historical precedents are not literally screaming at us.\n\n[Link]",
  "title": "The White House has an app now, and Trump wants you to report people to ICE on it",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-28T13:15:23.249Z"
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