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
Published: 16:39 EST, 16 December 2022 | Updated: 02:13 EST, 17 December 2022
The FBI has refused to say how many social media companies it works with, defending their actions after it emerged that agents from the bureau regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found questionable.
Officials from the bureau even asked for Twitter to hand over the locations from where the Twitter accounts were being operated, in a disturbing move that many saw as an attack on the First Amendment.
One user targeted by the FBI, who goes by @Lexitollah, said: 'Seems like prima facie 1A violation.'
Charlie Hurt, the opinion editor of The Washington Examiner, said it was 'a clear violation of the First Amendment.'
He told Tucker Carlson: 'They were actually opening up new back channels on platforms I've not heard of before, in order to keep in touch with one another.
'If this was happening during the Pentagon Papers, and we were seeing this level of collusion between the federal government and news, there would rightly be an outcry.'
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