On Friday, a new installment of “The Twitter Files” was released, detailing the frequent interactions between federal law enforcement and Twitter workers over content restriction.
According to journalist Matt Taibbi, Twitter’s Senior Director of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth spoke with the FBI through email more than 150 times between January 2020 and November 2022.
In light of the upcoming election, the FBI, as reported by Taibbi, has reportedly ordered smaller Twitter accounts to delete messages that may confuse voters. To probe charges of foreign influence and election meddling following the 2016 election, the FBI organized a social media task force called FTIF, which eventually swelled to 80 agents and spoke with Twitter.
He claims that the DHS worked with private security firms and think institutes to censor content on the social media platform Twitter.
It appears that the FBI and DHS “often transferred social media information to Twitter through several access channels, pre-flagged for moderation,” according to data from a recent investigation conducted by Taibbi’s team.
According to what Taibbi has revealed, the FBI has made tremendous efforts to get people to respond to threats on Twitter.
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An FBI document published at https://t.co/ZQeb9Ko06p on November 5, 2022, claims that the FBI’s National Election Command Post (responsible for receiving and distributing complaints) submitted a considerable number of cases that “may justify special investigation” to the San Francisco field office.
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Once @Lexitollah heard the FBI’s warning, he made the following proclamation: “The first thing that comes to mind is that this is a problem for our right to express ourselves freely. This profile gives an amazing peek into an amoeba’s potential scope. Lastly, I have no idea if they are looking elsewhere.
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Director and associate general counsel for global policy at Twitter, Stacia Cardille, informed Twitter’s deputy general counsel Jim Baker that she meets regularly with the FBI, DOJ, DHS, and ODNI to review election security problems.
All workers have access to the “possibly violative content” tweets that the FBI has recognized as being shared via ordinary office email.
Another document from the same month in 2021 reveals that Twitter employees were reviewing tweets that the FBI had marked as “possibly violative content.”
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The FBI has taken to Twitter to disseminate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) worries about possible interference in the next American elections.
In several speeches, the DHS Secretary emphasizes the need for “private sector partner” (C.P.) communication with the police.
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With so many people buying into the “Russia meddled in the 2016 election” hoax, Taibbi argues that stricter rules are necessary. Security measures were increased in response, just like they were after September 11, 2001.
According to Taibbi, Twitter employees were vocal in their appreciation of one another for the “monumental effort” they had made in screening content for the FBI.
Moreover, Taibbi said that the government might get Twitter data covertly.
The government spread its endorsed information across several social media sites via various covert methods. In an email to Roth, T.I.’s employee Chan describes how he uses Teleporter to report on Twitter.
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About 38 state governments were involved in the initiative to report incorrect content.
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It was after the group had ignored a tweet from then-President Trump that California made contact with them.
Why did nobody try to fix it?” In light of a warning by the state of California through “our partner support site” in reaction to one of President Trump’s tweets, Twitter’s higher echelons are debating how to proceed.
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Taibbi writes, “what most people perceive as the ‘deep state’ is a convoluted combination of government agencies, private contractors, and (often state-funded) NGOs.”