Don't you think that a few hundred instances of articles like this could have a chilling effect? If you keep reading articles over a few months about different

Don't you think that a few hundred instances of articles like this could have a chilling effect? If you keep reading articles over a few months about different people being visited/interviewed by the FBI, you'll at some point have the thought "can they somehow find out about me?". It's Panopticon-lite, give the impression they might be able to see you even if there's no realistic capacity to watch everyone at once and you'll feel a little more paranoid, that's a chilling effect. Now couple that with the friend of the administration Larry Ellison's quote about "if we watch every citizen they'll be in their best behaviour", and you get to a political project of control.