Newest Twitter Files Batch Reveals Uncle Sam Sought To Ban or Suspend 250,000+ Accounts, Many of Whom Were Sex Trafficking Victims

The plot thickens. On today’s episode of the podcast, the latest batch of Twitter Files reveal that US government agencies were seeking to ban or suspend upward of 250,000 accounts — many belonging to small follower count individuals, and random Canadian bureaucrats, curiously. Many of these accounts were tweeting about the child trafficking epidemic in the West; curious coincidence, again.

The feds claimed these were accounts that had ‘Interacted’ with at least 2 Chinese-owned Twitter accounts; yet interacting or following with a Chinese national’s social media account is not a crime — we are not at war with China.

And these incidental follows or other interactions are technologically inevitable on international platforms like Twitter or Facebook or YouTube, for that matter. Not all users are in the US; quite a few are abroad.

And further, incidental contact with Chinese social media accounts should not be reason to suspend a citizen’s entire First Amendment rights on the Internet, secretly, extrajudicially, and in this manner.

Even some left leaning Twitter executives thought the US government was going too far, the leaked Files reveal: “we don’t do this,” one Twitter executive repeatedly stated in exchanges with bureaucrats pushing for greater control.

—FULCRUM Research