“The FBI is using its counterterrorism division to investigate and add ‘threat tags’ to parents who are protesting school boards.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 16 Nov 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Internal FBI guidance shows that a “threat tag” was created to track “investigations and assessments of threats" directed at school officials. There is no evidence it would be used on parents for simply protesting.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 November 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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