FBI 'Deep State' team of 80 people regularly handed Twitter lists of people to BAN - including actor Billy Baldwin and satire accounts, new trove of Musk's 'Twitter Files' reveal
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
By Keith Griffith and Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:39 EST, 16 December 2022 | Updated: 19:36 EST, 16 December 2022
A new trove of internal communications from Twitter suggests that the FBI maintained persistent contact with company employees in recent years, frequently proposing user bans, including for strident Trump critic and actor Billy Baldwin, and what appear to be satire accounts.
'Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,' argued journalist Matt Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.
FBI officials, meeting with Twitter executives, told them there was 'no impediment' to sharing classified information with them, according to an internal memo.
The files were the latest in a series of documents to be released after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk gave a group of hand-picked journalists access to the company's internal records.
'Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth,' claimed Taibbi.
'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,' he added.
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