Twitter Files: FBI Worked With Ukraine to Censor Twitter Users, Including Journalists
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The FBI sent Twitter an email from Ukrainian intelligence asking the social media platform to ban journalists and users critical of Ukraine and turn over their “user data specified during registration,” according to the latest Twitter Files leak.
New Twitter Files:
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 7, 2023
The FBI is helping Ukraine censor Twitter users, including journalists.
The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including Aaron Maté.
Article here: https://t.co/onb5mLXrjB
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 7, 2023
In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the SBU, Ukraine’s main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, “are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.” pic.twitter.com/mxwGrVNLuz
From Aaron Maté, “FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info, including journalists”:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine’s main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, “are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.” In an attached memo, the SBU asked Twitter to remove the accounts and hand over their user data.
The Ukrainian government’s FBI-enabled targets extend to members of the media. The SBU list that the FBI provided to Twitter included my name and Twitter profile. In its response to the FBI, Twitter agreed to review the accounts for “inauthenticity” but raised concerns about the inclusion of me and other “American and Canadian journalists.”
The FBI’s attempt to ban Twitter accounts at the request of Ukrainian intelligence is among the most overt requests for censorship revealed to date in the Twitter Files, a cache of leaked communications from the social media giant.
Twitter declined to turn over their data but banned dozens of people off the list.
In an attached memo, Ukraine's SBU provided a list of accounts that it alleged have been "used to disseminate disinformation and fake news to inaccurately reflect events in Ukraine."
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 7, 2023
It then asked Twitter "to block these Twitter accounts and provide us with" their "user data." pic.twitter.com/zhn2xRt5GT
In response to the FBI, Twitter agreed to review the accounts but raised concerns about its inclusion of “American and Canadian journalists (e.g. Aaron Mate).” pic.twitter.com/VOzzL3Vz9W
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 7, 2023
The FBI declined to answer my questions about its aid to Ukrainian intelligence censorship efforts.
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) June 7, 2023
“While we appreciate your inquiry, as a matter of practice we do not confirm, deny, or otherwise comment on specific interactions nor confirm the veracity of correspondence,” FBI…
The US government is a lawless regime. While Biden and his handlers endlessly prattle on about the “rules based order,” “upholding democracy” and all that garbage they’re shamelessly using the state to target/jail their political enemies and censor their opposition.
