Earlier this month, the American journalist Matt Taibbi revealed internal documents of Twitter (before the Elon Musk era), which show that senior officials of the company interfered in the 2020 US presidential elections, and even worked to censor and remove from the network political content that did not match their positions.
At the center of the disclosure is the case of Hunter Biden, the president's son: a few weeks before the election, the "New York Post" revealed emails retrieved from a laptop belonging to the president's son, which allegedly testified to a lifestyle that included the use of hard drugs and nude photos.
Although there was no reason to doubt the reliability of the findings - the investigation was censored on Twitter.
Joe and Hunter Biden.
On clearer days, photo: AP
Now, documents and e-mails uncovered by journalist Tybee on Twitter reveal just how deep the FBI's involvement in the social network was and how seriously the federal agency's requests were taken by the social network's previous executives, before Musk took over.
The person who was at the time the "censor" of the company, Yoel Roth, feared that this was a violation of the rules of the organization and that the goal was to help American intelligence agents inside the USA.
Over the weekend, Taibe claimed that the FBI refused to report how many social media companies the organization worked with, after it emerged that
agents from the organization regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found suspicious.
"Former employees of the FBI were screwed in senior positions at Twitter", photo: AP
According to what was revealed, the FBI asked Twitter, among other things, for the physical locations of the accounts that were used to write the tweets, which was seen as a violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Also,
employees who worked for the FBI rose to senior positions on the social network
. For example, Attorney General James Baker, who advised the FBI and became Twitter's legal counsel. But it's not just him. A deep dive shows that more than a dozen FBI employees found themselves in senior positions at Twitter, with one of them even being trusted by the team that censored the Hunter Biden files.
Musk asked, the tweeters determined: resign
Meanwhile, this morning the CEO of the social network published "Should I resign as head of Twitter?". A majority of 57% of tweeters stated yes.
Elon Musk's survey, photo: from Twitter
Participated in the preparation of the news: Damian Pechter.
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