cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/70362
The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.
The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm.
These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.
Many requests arrived via Teleporter, a one-way platform in which many communications were timed to vanish ( so I guess free of information requests are useless)
“Other Government Agencies” ended up sharing intelligence through the FBI and FITF not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Clouldfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia
The CIA has yet to comment on the nature of its relationship to tech companies like Twitter.