14.Cardille then passes on conference details to recently-hired ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker.
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15.“I invited the FBI and the CIA virtually will attend too,” Cardille says to Baker, adding pointedly: “No need for you to attend.”
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16.The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm.
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17. These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.
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18.One of the most common forums was a regular meeting of the multi-agency Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), attended by spates of executives, FBI personnel, and – nearly always – one or two attendees marked “OGA.”
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19.The FITF meeting agendas virtually always included, at or near the beginning, an “OGA briefing,” usually about foreign matters (hold that thought).
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20. Despite its official remit being “Foreign Influence,” the FITF and the SF FBI office became conduit for mountains of domestic moderation requests, from state governments, even local police:
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21. Many requests arrived via Teleporter, a one-way platform in which many communications were timed to vanish:
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22.Especially as the election approached in 2020, the FITF/FBI overwhelmed Twitter with requests, sending lists of hundreds of problem accounts:
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23. Email after email came from the San Francisco office heading into the election, often adorned with an Excel attachment:
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24. There were so many government requests, Twitter employees had to improvise a system for prioritizing/triaging them:
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25. The FBI was clearly tailoring searches to Twitter’s policies. FBI complaints were almost always depicted somewhere as a “possible terms of service violation," even in the subject line:
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26. Twitter executives noticed the FBI appeared to be aasigning personnel to look for Twitter violations.
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27.“They have some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations. This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,” remarked Cardille.
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28. Even ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker agreed: “Odd that they are searching for violations of our policies.”
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29.The New York FBI office even sent requests for the “user IDs and handles” of a long list of accounts named in a Daily Beast article. Senior executives say they are “supportive” and “completely comfortable” doing so.
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