Sunday, December 18, 2022

The thicitcally challenged FBI

Twittergate deepens: FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing - amid accusations it broke the law by pushing Twitter to remove accounts and hand over user location details, new trove reveals

  • Journalist Matt Taibbi posted a new trove of Twitter documents on Friday
  • They show emails from FBI officials requesting bans on Twitter users
  • In one email last month, the FBI asked Twitter to suspend actor Billy Baldwin
  • Also listed in the ban request were satire accounts and right-wing commentary
  • FBI claimed the accounts were 'disseminating false information' about elections
  • The FBI is refusing to say which other social media networks they work with 

By KEITH GRIFFITH and HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

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