Twitter Files: Federal Agencies, Partisan Officials Demanded Accounts Be Removed

Leading up to the 2020 general election, Twitter received and obliged requests from federal and state government bodies as well as partisan officials to remove accounts they deemed problematic, a Tuesday installment of the “Twitter Files” exposé series reveals.

Throughout the fall of 2020, increasingly more agencies attempted to interlope in Twitter’s content moderation processes, which already involved the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and others.

For example, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) checked in on September 1 to confirm Twitter was heeding the FBI’s flagging of certain...