> The discovery followed a monthslong investigation into what the agency described as anonymous “telephonic threats” made to three high-level U.S. government officials this spring — one official in the Secret Service and two who work at the White House, one of the officials said.

> The agency did not provide details about the threats made to the three officials, but Mr. McCool described some as “fraudulent calls.”

> Investigators have been going through the data on SIM cards that were part of the network, including calls, texts and browser history. Mr. McCool said they expected to find that other senior government officials had also been targeted in the operation.

The article goes out of its way to imply a link between this farm and the threats, but doesn't actually explicitly make that link.

The CNN article covering the same story does the same thing: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/us/swatting-investigation-ser...

The Secret Service statement, however, does make that claim explicitly in the first sentence: https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-s...