Surprisingly, the FBI has Twitter on its radar and deployed staff to review its policies for any infractions! An ex-executive at Twitter expressed surprise that such actions were being taken, which led to the unusual decision. These startling facts came to light as a result of Elon Musk’s “The Twitter Files” research.
Observing an internal email from legal executive Stacia Cardille to Jim Baker, Twitter’s former deputy general counsel who was sacked by Elon Musk on December 6, Taibbi tweeted, “Twitter management observed the FBI appeared to be aasigning [sic] individuals to search for Twitter infractions.”
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Almost every report the agency made to Twitter was couched as a “possible terms of service violation,” Taibbi noted.
The company’s employees were suspicious when there was an unexpected increase in FBI demands. They couldn’t help but wonder what might be going on behind the scenes in this strange situation.
They have some employees at their headquarters and at the Baltimore field office who only conduct keyword searches for infractions. According to a letter made public by Taibbi, Cardille emailed Baker, “This is probably the tenth request I have dealt with in the last five days.
“They have some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations. This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,” remarked Cardille. pic.twitter.com/asTlMhs2if
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 24, 2022
“Odd that they are searching for violations of our policies,” Baker, a former FBI attorney who played a key role in the approved surveillance on Carter Page, a Trump campaign aide, based on the now-discredited Steele Dossier, said in another email released by Taibbi.
Even ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker agreed: “Odd that they are searching for violations of our policies.” pic.twitter.com/ini1eMznTA
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 24, 2022
A concern was expressed about how these demands could be better managed as the FBI, State Department, DoD, and local police agencies made an increasing number of requests to Twitter for data access. Could a prioritizing mechanism be used to tackle this complicated problem?
- There were so many government requests, Twitter employees had to improvise a system for prioritizing/triaging them: pic.twitter.com/NRSyM6Z5Vu
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 24, 2022
“Is there some way we can figure out an accommodation to prioritize the reports we escalate, particularly in light of the depreciation of go/electionsescalations?” Cardille emailed to at least five people on Oct. 28, 2020, according to Taibbi.
The FBI declined to comment on their strategies in response to queries from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
