11. What stands out is the sheer quantity of reports from the government. Some are aggregated from public hotlines:

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12.An unanswered question: do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out? “You have to prove to me that inside the fucking government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search,” says one former intelligence officer.

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“HELLO TWITTER CONTACTS”: The master-canine quality of the FBI’s relationship to Twitter comes through in this November 2022 email, in which “FBI San Francisco is notifying you” it wants action on four accounts:

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16. “Anyone who cannot discern obvious satire from reality has no place making decisions for others or working for the feds,” said Claire Foster PHD, when told about the flagging.

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17.Of the six accounts mentioned in the previous two emails, all but two – ClaireFosterPHD and FromMa – were suspended.

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18. In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”:

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19.Agent Chan passed the list on to his "Twitter folks":

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20. Twitter then replied with its list of actions taken. Note mercy shown to actor Billy Baldwin:

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22.When told of the FBI flagging, Lexitollah replied: “My thoughts initially include 1. Seems like prima facie 1A violation 2. Holy cow, me, an account with the reach of an amoeba 3. What else are they looking at?”

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23.“I can't believe the FBI is policing jokes on Twitter. That's crazy,” said Tiberius444.

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24.In a letter to former Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker on Sep. 16, 2022, legal exec Stacia Cardille outlines results from her “soon to be weekly” meeting with DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:

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25.The Twitter exec writes she explicitly asked if there were “impediments” to the sharing of classified information “with industry.” The answer? “FBI was adamant no impediments to sharing exist.”

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26. This passage underscores the unique one-big-happy-family vibe between Twitter and the FBI. With what other firm would the FBI blithely agree to “no impediments” to classified information?

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27.At the bottom of that letter, she lists a series of “escalations” apparently raised at the meeting, which were already “handled.”

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