Federal Bureau of Investigation employees regularly contacted Twitter employees to notify them of accounts that “may” violate the company’s terms of service, according to a new Twitter file released Friday. became.
Substack writer and journalist Matt Taibbi tweeted several internal emails between Twitter employees and FBI employees as part of the sixth installment of Twitter Files.
“Hello Twitter contacts, the FBI San Francisco is notifying you of the accounts below that may violate Twitter’s Terms of Service by actions or omissions deemed appropriate within Twitter’s policies,” it said. An FBI employee wrote in an email on November 10th. 2022.
The email listed multiple Twitter accounts that may have violated the social media company’s terms of service.
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In response, a Twitter employee said three of the four accounts had been suspended.
“We have already confirmed this from TD’s perspective and have suspended three accounts for multiple account abuse and ban evasion violations,” a Twitter employee wrote.
A Twitter employee asked someone else at the company to review a fourth account reported by the FBI as “potentially citizen misinformation.”
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Taibbi said one of the accounts tweeted on November 8.
In another email shared by Taibbi, the FBI’s San Francisco office’s “Public Sector Engagement Unit” notified Twitter employees of “account activity” that “may violate Twitter’s terms of service.” indicates that there is
One tweet warned by the FBI reads, “Americans please vote today. Democrats please vote Wednesday 9th.”
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Another tweet, which the FBI warned by email, said one user “claimed in a post that she was a poll counter for her state, and in an additional post, said, ‘For all negative comments on this post, I will add another vote.” Democrat” and “If you’re not wearing a mask, I’m not counting your votes.”
Taibbi said tweets from users claiming to be voting counters were satirical.
Plus the former Stacia Cardill twitter lawyerThe FBI could share sensitive information with the social media giant, in a summary of a September 16, 2021 meeting with government law enforcement and Twitter’s former deputy general counsel, Jim Baker. It seemed to suggest something.
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“I have attended monthly (soon to be weekly) 90-minute meetings with FBI, DOJ, DHS, ODNI and industry peers on election threats. Some items to note:” Cardill wrote. I’m here. “I specifically asked if there were any barriers to the government’s ability to share classified or other relevant information with industry, and the FBI affirmed there were no barriers to information sharing.”
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, an FBI spokesperson said, “The FBI does not disclose information specific to the subversive, undeclared, secret, or criminal activities of identified foreign malicious influencers. We regularly engage with private sector organizations to provide them with independent decisions about what to do with their platforms and customers after being notified by the FBI. about how to take action
