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Reason
Politics
Robby Soave

Twitter Files: The FBI Frequently Flagged Joke Tweets, Asked for Moderation

FBI agents communicated regularly with content moderators at Twitter, and frequently asked for tweets to be taken down for allegedly violating the platforms' policies against election-related misinformation. The conversations were so numerous—including emails and weekly meetings—that a top Twitter staffer came to describe the relationship between the company and law enforcement as "government-industry sync."

That's according to the latest installment of the Twitter Files, which was released by independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday.

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