Twitter Files: Elon Musk says US govt agencies demanded suspension of over 250k accounts
FirstpostSan Francisco: Elon Musk, in the latest set of revelations under ‘Twitter Files’, claimed that the US government agencies had asked the microblogging site to suspend more than 250,000 accounts. Commenting on Twitter thread of journalist Matt Taibbi, Musk wrote: “US government agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists & Canadian officials!” The request to suspend Twitter accounts of users allegedly came from the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Global Engagement Centre which had apparently prepared a lots of accounts that “displayed inorganic behaviour” and had accounts of “two or more” Chinese diplomats. In the latest release of ‘Twitter Files’, Taibbi also claimed that the microblogging site was pressurised to work hand-in-hand with the US government agencies to search for Russian meddling. Taibbi also shared an email in which Democratic representative and House Intel Committee Chief Adam Schiff’s office’s requested to ban journalist Paul Sperry “related to alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists.” Schiff’s office also requested that Twitter “stop the spread of future misinformation” on the social media platform regarding committee staff and “label and reduce the visibility of any content.” “Even Twitter declined to honor Schiff’s request at the time,” Taibbi wrote, noting Twitter’s responses to Schiff’s office repeatedly saying “we don’t do this.” As Taibbi noted, though, Sperry was later suspended.