- 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
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.