Press freedom groups warn of chilling effect after CBP seizes journalist’s phones

Press freedom groups warn of chilling effect after CBP seizes journalist’s phones

Press freedom groups are calling on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to return cell phones it seized from fringe progressive writer Max Blumenthal, just days after far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer demanded that federal authorities arrest him.  The action is part of a war, it would seem, between fringe corners of the internet. Still, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Blumenthal's interrogation and device sei…