New 'Twitter Files' detail FBI's relationship with company leadership

The latest release of internal Twitter documents released by allies of new owner Elon Musk details the conversations and interactions the FBI and Twitter's leadership had in the lead-up to the 2020 election and the platform's censoring of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop.

The FBI maintained constant contact with Twitter, to the point of sharing temporary top-secret security clearances, according to the latest release of what Musk allies are calling the "Twitter Files," this time from author Michael Shellenberger. The company also had several ex-FBI members on staff and had open channels to communicate with the agency in the weeks before the 2020 election.

The FBI opened a "virtual war room" with Twitter in September 2020 to handle election misinformation. The channel was a one-way communication from the FBI to Twitter and included representatives from the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.