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>>GavCo+(OP)
3. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.

4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.

How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days . I figured it would be more. Also, it's called the FBI. Their job is to investigate federal matters, which includes content on social social media. They do with with all major social networks. It's not just politics or the media, but things related to safety, terrorism, kidnaping, child exploitation, etc.

It seems like these files are becoming more and more underwhelming.

>>paulpa+34
Once per week for three years is not constant to you? Weird.

>>morale+4M
For the amount that a police department would try talking to a major social media platform? That's shockingly low to me.

>>jcranm+FO
Especially one the size of Twitter, if anything it seems so low that I think they missed whole raft of such communications.

>>jacque+4P
Another possibility I considered is if Twitter had been so uncooperative with prior requests that the government stopped bothering sending so many.

>>jcranm+XQ
That's a possibility, but unlikely. Twitter execs were probably well aware of the long arm of the law and that their ability to stay in business to a large extent depended on staying on the right side of the line legally. That's precisely why you see them arguing about this to such a degree in these articles, they are well aware of their position vis-a-vis the law.

I've had some contact with the FBI over the years regarding stuff happening on one of my sites and they were - it has to be said - polite and arguing their case quite well, in no way did I feel like figuring out whether if I refused them what the next step would be, it felt like I would be the unreasonable party. But if they had made an unreasonable request I would have told them to fuck off.