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If you have Snapchat, you know about the university stories recently created by the Snapchat Team. Over the course of the past year, UNI’s Snapchat stories have blown up with propaganda, fake news and arguably rancid takes across multiple contributors. Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigations opened a case into the UNI 2026 Snapchat story after multiple reports have been filed. The story received a harsh label of “Hazardous” by the FBI at the end of the case. Agent Kline was the main investigator on the case, and sat down with the Northern Iowan to discuss what this rating means, and how students should navigate it.
“UNI isn’t the only school that was investigated regarding Snapchat stories, for starters. This is a project the FBI has taken across the country. It’s an epidemic,” said Kline. “Hazardous is one of our harsher labels. I mean, some of the takes that we’ve seen on these stories almost affected me – and I’m a former Navy Seal.” Agent Kline is referring to a multitude of posts reviewed by his team. These include cherry picked data posts from Linny, never ending TikToks that make no sense posted by Jonathan, and all of the incessant arguing that occurs on the Snapchat story. “I mean, these were incriminating posts that we found. These should’ve never been posted in the first place,” in reference to some of Linny’s posts. “It just makes you shake your head.”
The Northern Iowan reached out to both Linny and Jonathon for comment. Jonathan replied to us with a TikTok of Joe Rogan attempting to form a coherent sentence. Linny sent us back a cease and desist letter written by her, not a legal counsel. In big, bold letters at the top, Linny had written “If you publish anything about me, I will post about you on the UNI 2026 Snapchat story and say that the Northern Iowan is fake news.”
Agent Kline recommends to UNI students that they either leave the UNI 2026 Snapchat story, ignore posts from the story, or delete the app altogether. “I haven’t seen much like this. I fear that UNI students will lose whatever brain cells they have left after reading these posts. It’s something that could really threaten the security of the university.”
