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NYT op-ed: “Privacy at all costs” is “dangerous,” use of Signal and similar tools “puts us all at risk”
The piece branded Signal “government-evading technology.”
63% of voters want FBI investigated for social media censorship push
After docs show FBI was flagging tweets of US citizens.
DNC staffer fumed to Twitter, “These rules need revision,” after it declined to censor Biden video
More political pressure to censor revealed.
The FBI won’t name other social media companies it pays
The FBI says it reimburses platforms for the cost of its requests.
The FBI flagged tweets on Ukraine and vaccines
Twitter execs couldn’t link the tweets to the foreign influence campaigns the FBI was alleging.
FBI flagged so many tweets, Twitter execs had to find a way to process stream of requests
Many flags weren’t based on foreign influence operations, but domestic tweets from US citizens.
Lawmakers push back against FBI facial recognition tech
For violating civil liberties.
FBI responds to Twitter censorship allegations, blames “conspiracy theorists” and “misinformation”
The FBI says what it did wasn’t censorship.
Why was the FBI paying Twitter millions of dollars?
Paying to access information on users.
FBI tried to get Twitter to share account information without a warrant
More evidence of the agency attempting to extract data from Twitter directly.
Even former Twitter censor expressed discomfort with FBI demands
New internal discussions revealed.