FBI Was in Constant Contact with Twitter ‘Trust and Safety’ Team, Documents Show
The FBI frequently communicated with Twitter’s Trust and Safety team before Elon Musk acquired the company, the sixth installment of the “Twitter Files” exposé series reveals.
Between January 2020 and November 2022, over 150 emails were exchanged between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth, journalist Matt Taibbi reported. Roth, who resigned shortly after Musk’s takeover, led the team responsible for suppressing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell on the platform.
Some of those virtual conversations involved the FBI asking for information about Twitter users that related to active investigations. But in a significant number...