New Twitter Files Drop Delves Deeper Into FBI Involvement in Content Moderation

Jeff Charles / RedState 

 

A new episode of “The Twitter Files” has been released, and it revealed even more about the cozy relationship between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the social media company. You might remember from the last drop how the FBI flagged certain accounts and politely asked the accommodating folks at pre-Musk Twitter to remove their accounts.

In this drop, the collusion is fleshed out even more. Journalist Matt Taibbi reveals some friction between FBI agent Elvis Chan and members of Twitter’s leadership.

In July 2020, Chan told former cybersecurity head Yoel Roth to “expect written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF),” an inter-agency coalition tasked with addressing cyber threats. He wrote:

I believe FITF would like a response ahead of our meeting the week of August 10^th. It can be a written response or we can set up a phone call. Whatever is easiest for you. I think...Read more and see tweets here.