The Patriot Act was set to expire. By voting to reauthorize the Patriot Act without amendments, the Senate was certainly voting to allow the FBI to spy on email

The Patriot Act was set to expire. By voting to reauthorize the Patriot Act without amendments, the Senate was certainly voting to allow the FBI to spy on emails without a warrant, as this is what the Patriot Act would allow if they had reauthorized it. Facebook tried to play semantics games in claiming this was false info and they were straight up wrong. By censoring the post of a major civil rights advocacy group Facebook may well have contributed to the bill flying under peoples’ radars and passing in the Senate. Luckily the civil rights groups were able to eke out a win in the House, but this was dangerously close to passing.