14.Twitter personnel in that case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts, including fromma, whose tweets are almost all jokes (see sample below), including his “civic misinformation” of Nov. 8:
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15. Just to show the FBI can be hyper-intrusive in both directions, they also asked Twitter to review a blue-leaning account for a different joke, except here it was even more obvious that Claire Foster PHD, who kids a lot, was kidding:
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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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20. Twitter then replied with its list of actions taken. Note mercy shown to actor Billy Baldwin:
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21.Many of the above accounts were satirical in nature, nearly all (with the exceptions of Baldwin and RSB Network) were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, “Thanks, Twitter” letter:
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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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28. About one, she writes: “Flagged a specific Tweet on Illinois use of modems to transmit election results in possible violation of the civic integrity policy (except they do use that tech in limited circumstances).”
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29.Another internal letter from January, 2021 shows Twitter execs processing an FBI list of “possible violative content” tweets:
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