Twitter Files: Rep. Adam Schiff's office requested tech giant to suspend accounts

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Substack writer Matt Taibbi's latest 'Twitter Files' involve the office of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif, and the Global Engagement Center of Trump's State Department.

'Media Buzz' host Howard Kurtz discusses the latest batch of Twitter files that reveal the Biden and Trump administrations attempted to suppress COVID content they did not agree with.

Schiff's office also requested that Twitter"stop the spread of future misinformation on Twitter" regarding committee staff and"label and reduce the visibility of any content." Each installment of the"Twitter Files" was shared by the journalists tapped by Elon Musk in lengthy Twitter threads addressing various controversies. Taibbi went viral with the first installment in early December with his"Twitter Files" focusing on Twitter's internal discussions leading to it censor theduring the 2020 presidential election, with some officials struggling to explain how it violated its"hacked materials" policies.

The second installment published by The Free Press editor Bari Weiss revealed Twitter's"blacklisting" of prominent conservatives, including Fox News host Dan Bongino, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, as well as Stanford University's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a longstanding opponent of COVID groupthink during the pandemic who expressed opposition to lockdowns.

Independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss were tapped by Elon Musk to report on the "Twitter Files." Part six of the"Twitter Files" put a spotlight on Twitter's close ties with the FBI. Taibbi alleged the law enforcement agency was acting like a"subsidiary" of the tech giant, revealing communications that showed FBI agents systemically flagged Twitter users for tweets that included"possible violative content" pertaining to the election.

In part seven, Shellenberger framed the Twitter's coziness with the FBI in the context of the Hunter Biden laptop story, showing the FBI's requests for Twitter to share sensitive data of its users, which Twitter refused to give, and the agency's repeated inquiries into whether Twitter has seen foreign activity leading up to the 2020 election, something Twitter at the time said it hadn't. On Oct.

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