{"id":1786152,"date":"2022-12-25T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T12:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786152"},"modified":"2022-12-25T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T12:48:48","slug":"latest-twitter-files-reveals-company-was-in-contact-with-multiple-government-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-twitter-files-reveals-company-was-in-contact-with-multiple-government-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest \u201cTwitter Files\u201d Reveals Company Was in Contact With Multiple Government Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flatest-twitter-files-reveals-company-was-in-contact-with-multiple-government-agencies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786152&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/JackDorsey-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi released a new installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d Saturday afternoon that showed that the FBI was not the only government agency that was in regular contact with Twitter about content on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi said that the State Department, Department of Defense, and Central Intelligence Agency were also involved in contacting the platform about potential foreign propaganda on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Internal company emails showed that FBI agent Elvis Chan asked Twitter executives if he could invite an \u201cOGA\u201d \u2014 Other Government Agency \u2014 to an upcoming conference.<\/p>\n<p>The email referred to a Twitter employee, whose name was redacted, and said that people from the employee\u2019s \u201cformer employer,\u201d which a Twitter executive acknowledged meant the CIA, were specifically inquiring about the invitation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12.The first Twitter executive abandoned any pretense to stealth and emailed that the employee \u201cused to work for the CIA, so that is Elvis\u2019s question.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5kL8xNRZcO\">pic.twitter.com\/5kL8xNRZcO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701420543381504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of Twitter\u2019s head lawyers said in internal company communications that the fact that employee used to work for the CIA was supposed to be a secret.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">13.Senior legal executive Stacia Cardille, whose alertness stood out among Twitter leaders, replied, \u201cI know\u201d and \u201cI thought my silence was understood.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SkBObgCQZG\">pic.twitter.com\/SkBObgCQZG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701423408091136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm,\u201d Taibbi said. \u201cThese included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Twitter Files release also showed that FBI officials helped put the company in contact with local law enforcement officials to deal with issues.<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi said that the FBI was \u201cclearly tailoring\u201d its searches on the platform to look for potential content violations that Twitter could take action on.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker, who was involved in a lot of controversy surrounding his involvement in different investigations into former President Donald Trump, even thought that the FBI\u2019s actions were strange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOdd that they are searching for violations of our policies,\u201d Baker said in an email.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">29.The New York FBI office even sent requests for the \u201cuser IDs and handles\u201d of a long list of accounts named in a Daily Beast article. Senior executives say they are \u201csupportive\u201d and \u201ccompletely comfortable\u201d doing so. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MfSX7NcZJF\">pic.twitter.com\/MfSX7NcZJF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701459068051456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) flagged the \u201cfringiest\u201d conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election to the social media company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">31. \u201cForeign meddling\u201d had been the ostensible justification for expanded moderation since platforms like Twitter were dragged to the Hill by the Senate in 2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b3wR2aUjcf\">pic.twitter.com\/b3wR2aUjcf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701463971196930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Twitter Files showed that Twitter was at times under pressure from to take action on accounts that federal law enforcement claimed were tied to foreign governments, even though it didn\u2019t have enough evidence to come to the same conclusion as those law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">35. \u201cExtremely tenuous circumstantial chance of being related,\u201d says another. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nLnShIZTLc\">pic.twitter.com\/nLnShIZTLc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701472246534147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">39. In a key email, news that the State Department was making a wobbly public assertion of Russian influence led an exec \u2013 the same one with the \u201cOGA\u201d past \u2013 to make a damning admission:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701480702259201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Twitter employee who allegedly worked at the CIA in the past said that one claim from the State Department about Russian influence operations was not supported by the company\u2019s conclusions because the company had \u201ca lack of technical evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that government pressure was increasing because they wanted to give attribution to the countries responsible for the influence campaigns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">41. Translation: \u201cmore aggressive\u201d \u201cgovernment partners\u201d had closed Twitter\u2019s \u201cwindow\u201d of independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701485886410752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Other Government Agencies\u2019 ended up sharing intelligence through the FBI and FITF not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Clouldfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia,\u201d Taibbi added. \u201cMany people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF\/FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal law enforcement also flagged for Twitter suspicious accounts that could have been tied to foreign operatives that were promoting narratives about Ukraine and coronavirus vaccines. The accounts were tweeting \u201cUkraine \u2018neo-Nazi\u2019 Propaganda\u2019\u201d and claiming that the administration was corrupt in determining which countries that it sent vaccines to.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">48. Another report asserts a list of accounts accusing the \u201cBiden administration\u201d of \u201ccorruption\u201d in vaccine distribution are part of a Russian influence campaign: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RPDDFNWaji\">pic.twitter.com\/RPDDFNWaji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701501677961217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">51. Intel about the shady origin of these accounts might be true. But so might at least some of the information in them \u2013 about neo-Nazis, rights abuses in Donbas, even about our own government. Should we block such material?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701508862828545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">53. Often intel reports are just long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos guilty of \u201canti-Ukraine narratives\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6q7IX5S7WM\">pic.twitter.com\/6q7IX5S7WM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701512050487297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is a difficult speech dilemma. Should the government be allowed to try to prevent Americans (and others) from seeing pro-Maduro or anti-Ukrainian accounts?\u201d Taibbi concluded. \u201cThe line between \u2018misinformation\u2019 and \u2018distorting propaganda\u2019 is thin. Are we comfortable with so many companies receiving so many reports from a \u201cmore aggressive\u201d government?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi released a new installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d Saturday afternoon that showed that the FBI was not the only government agency that was in regular contact with Twitter about content on the platform. 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