By Daily Wire. A new drop in “The Twitter Files” series Friday afternoon shows that federal law enforcement officials were working in close contact with employees at Twitter to censor content.
Journalist Matt Taibbi said that between January 2020 and November 2022, then-Twitter Senior Director of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth had exchanged more than 150 emails with the FBI.
“A surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts,” Taibbi said. “The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.”
“Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content,” he continued.
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New Twitter Files Just Dropped
By Townhall. Independent journalist Matt Taibbi — who released the first installment of the “Twitter Files” and kicked off a firestorm of revelations that led to Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker being “exited” from the company — dropped another round of documents and information on Friday evening.
This time, the deep-dive into Twitter’s internal machinations focused on its role as a “subsidiary” of the FBI. The Twitter Files, Taibbi wrote in his thread of information, “are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content,” including how “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive.”
Just how constant, you may ask. Well, as Taibbi explained, the timespan covering January 2020 to November 2022 saw more than “150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.” Of those emails, some “are mundane, like San Francisco agent Elvis Chan wishing Roth a Happy New Year along with a reminder to attend ‘our quarterly call next week.’ Others are requests for information into Twitter users related to active investigations,” Taibbi said. “But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.” . . .
Taibbi shared a screenshot of an email from the FBI to Twitter seeking action against a handful of accounts, confirming that the federal government was pushing Twitter to act against individual users.
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