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# The White House has an app now, and Trump wants you to report people to ICE on it
- URL: https://werd.io/the-white-house-has-an-app-now-and-trump-wants-you-to-report-people-to-ice-on-it-2/
- Published: 2026-03-28T13:15:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-28T13:15:23.000Z
- Description: Want to report your friends and neighbors for extrajudicial kidnapping? The new White House app wants you to get in touch.
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Democracy, Notable links

\[[Stevie Bonifield in The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tech/902703/white-house-app-iphone-android?utm%5Fsource=flipboard&utm%5Fmedium=activitypub)\]

A little history lesson from [the Wiener Holocaust Library](https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-collaboration/german-collaboration-and-complicity/informants/):

> “In Nazi Germany, some citizens passed on information about their neighbours, family, and friends to the Gestapo . This was called informing. Nazi propaganda presented the Gestapo as an omnipresent , all-seeing, all-knowing group, but in reality there was just one secret police officer for approximately every 10,000 citizens of Nazi Germany. The Gestapo were therefore reliant on a network of thousands of informants.  
>  
> The information passed on by informants typically accused someone of breaking the law or of being a criminal in some way. The information provided was not always based on fact and could often be rumour or suspicion.”

Meanwhile, in *completely unrelated* news, [The Verge reports on a new app from the White House](https://www.theverge.com/tech/902703/white-house-app-iphone-android):

> “A new official White House app on Android and iOS takes the content from the White House website and copies it into app format. \[…\] A handful of tabs in the app mostly replicate pages that exist on the Trump Administration’s version of the White House website, including news, livestreams, social feeds, and a gallery. A prominent “Get in Touch” button on the social feeds tab includes an option for users to submit a tip to ICE, which takes them to a tip form on the ICE website.”

Wow, am I glad to be living in a time where *everything is normal* and the historical precedents are not literally screaming at us.

\[[Link](https://www.theverge.com/tech/902703/white-house-app-iphone-android?utm%5Fsource=flipboard&utm%5Fmedium=activitypub)\]