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Twitter files: FBI sought to ban Billy Baldwin and satire accounts
A new trove of internal communications from Twitter suggests that the FBI maintained persistent contact with company employees, and sought to ban the actor Billy Baldwin.
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- Journalist Matt Taibbi posted a new trove of Twitter documents on Friday
- They show emails from FBI officials requesting bans on Twitter users
- In one email last month, the FBI asked Twitter to suspend actor Billy Baldwin
- Also listed in the ban request were satire accounts and right-wing commentary
- FBI claimed the accounts were 'disseminating false information' about elections
'But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts,' he added.