Content Moderation? Twitter Executives 'Met Weekly With the FBI and DHS' and DNI Before 2020 Election

Before the 2020 election, Twitter executives were "clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content," according to Friday's dump of the "Twitter files," as reported by Matt Taibbi.

According to the information provided by Elon Musk, Twitter executive Yoel Roth "not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

In these three tweets, Taibbi describes what was going on in the weeks before the 2020 election through January 6, 2021:

--"Before J6, Twitter was a unique mix of automated, rules-based enforcement, and more subjective moderation by senior executives. As @BariWeiss reported, the firm had a vast array of tools for manipulating visibility, most all of which were thrown at Trump (and others) pre-J6."

-- "As the election approached, senior executives -- perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed -- increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of 'vios' [violations] as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway."

-- "After J6, internal Slacks [messaging] show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies..."