The FBI regularly communicated with content moderators at Twitter to ask for tweets to be taken down, according to the latest instalment of the Twitter Files released by Matt Taibbi. The American author, journalist and podcaster claims that the FBI even asked for jokes to be taken down from the social media site if they contained what it felt was misinformation.
According to Taibbi, the Twitter Files reveal more each day about how the US government collects, analyses and flags social media content. He branded Twitter’s contact with the FBI as "constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary".
In posts shared by Twitter owner Elon Musk, Taibbi said: "Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth."
