by Jacob Richards
Twice in the last two days people have sent The Revolutionist screen shots of local “reports” of ICE activity from a website masquerading as a community tool to track ICE in our communities.
The site (ice-tracker.info, and honestly, we would not recommend even loading the site, link intentionally disabled) was registered on January 9, just two days after the ICE killing of Renee Good.
The site claims to “provide real time ICE activity alerts.” There is even a function for users to report ICE activity, but tests of this feature indicate that reports just go to whomever is running the site and never appear in the local ‘alerts.’
The alerts are described as “real-time alerts from your community, powered by AI,” and are 100% made up AI slop.
How do we know its AI slop? Search any town, no matter how small or large, it will always populate five recent alerts within the last four hours.
Bonanza Colorado, population 16, still has five reports within the last four hours.
In the metropolis of Mack, Colorado…
…five results in the past four hours and it hallucinates a ‘Mack Elementary School’ into existence, a ‘BNSF Rail Station’ into existence and fabricates an intersection of F Road and Hwy 139.
The map the website generates shows all of the Mack, Colorado ICE activity as taking place in the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area.
The AI-generation ‘alerts’ prey on people’s basic fears, they involve schools, courthouse, transportation hubs, check points, door-to-door activities, etc. Scary stuff that is happening, just not in McInnis Canyons
A cyber-security expert did a little look at the code of the website for us, they said “It doesn’t feel or function like a “community driven” website. There is some money behind this.”
Unfortunately, a WhoIs search shows that the owners of the site are using a registrar service to keep themselves anonymous. Their registrar is IONOS.
Without knowing who is behind this website we can only speculate about its purpose. Is it just a chaff engine putting shit into the world to keep people scared, bury genuine alerts in piles of misinformation, or waste the time of Confirmer and Legal observer networks?
Is it fishing for information on people reporting ICE activities? We simply don’t know, but its clear that there is no benevolent purpose to sites like this
Please stay vigilant out there.
Report ICE activity in Colorado to the Colorado Rapid Response Network at 1-844-864-8341.
CORNN are local and have on the ground confirmation teams in place and should be your first call if you see ICE activities in our communities.
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