FBI flagged jokes and satirical accounts to Twitter for censorship
The sixth batch of Twitter Files, published on Twitter by journalist Matt Taibbi, has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were regularly flagging content to Twitter for censorship between January 2020 and November 2022 and that some of the flagged content contained jokes and satirical comments.
According to Taibbi, there were more than 150 emails between the FBI and former Head of Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth and a surprisingly high number of these emails were FBI requests for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.
Maybe this is why I have so few twitter followers.