Mon Dec 19, 2022 – 5:08 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Newly released emails show that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) flagged Twitter accounts for violating the platform’s terms of service and asked the platform to take action on them. The emails from Friday’s set of “Twitter Files” were released by independent journalist Matt Taibbi.
In the files were 150 emails exchanged between Elvis Chan, an FBI official from the agency’s San Francisco field office, and Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety. The dump includes other emails from the FBI to Twitter employees in which the agency flagged accounts for the platform.
An internal FBI email dated November 5, 2022, for instance, lists a series of accounts that “may warrant additional action” because they were being used to “spread misinformation about the upcoming election.” Chan passed the email to Twitter, writing, “Let us know if you decide to take any actions against these accounts based on our tipper to you … Also let us know if we need to issue a preservation letter as we intend to serve legal process for these accounts.”
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