FBI Wins Court Ruling to Keep Twitter Payments Secret
A federal judge just ruled that the public can’t know exactly how much the FBI paid Twitter during the years it was also telling Twitter which Americans to censor.
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A federal judge just ruled that the public can’t know exactly how much the FBI paid Twitter during the years it was also telling Twitter which Americans to censor.
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