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
'Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,' argued Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.
Taibbi pointed to a November 6, 2022 email from the National Election Command Post to the FBI, asking for their help in liaising with Twitter over 25 accounts 'that may warrant additional action'.
FBI refuses to reveal how many social media firms it is influencing
A new trove of internal communications from Twitter suggests that the FBI maintained persistent contact with company employees, and sought to ban the actor Billy Baldwin.
