Includes several journalist accounts…
Washington: On Tuesday, Twitter chief Elon Musk disclosed information that the US Government demanded the suspension of 250k Twitter accounts, including those belonging to journalists and Canadian officials, reported Fox News.
He shared the latest round of "Twitter Files," which were made public by the journalist Matt Taibbi.
"US government agencies demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists and Canadian officials!" tweeted Elon Musk.
The official new release of Twitter correspondence details the relationship between the social media company and several government agencies.
Taibbi revealed the US government's mounting pressure on Twitter to work hand-in-hand with Congress to hunt for Russian meddling on the platform, reported Fox News channel.
The Global Engagement Center described by Taibbi as "a fledgling analytic and intelligence arms of the State Department" which went public by releasing a report to media with a list of "suspect accounts" which it said were "Russian personas and proxies."
However, Twitter's subsequent task force to hunt Russian influence on the platform showed "no coordinated" effort and mostly "lone-wolf" accounts with low ad spends, reported Fox News.
These accounts were described based on criteria like 'Describing the coronavirus as an engineered bioweapon,' 'blaming "research conducted at the Wuhan institute,' and 'attributing the appearance of the virus to the CIA'," according to Taibbi.
The GEC report included a list of accounts that followed "two or more" Chinese diplomatic accounts and was a 250,000 names long list.
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