Exhibit 1113 ยท Social-media thread (Twitter Files)
Twitter Files #16: Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment (thread, 18-19 February 2023)
The below are some Russian controlled accounts that I think you will want to look into and delete.
Seventeen-post thread. It publishes two requests to Twitter from public officials of different affiliations: a list of accounts that Senator Angus King's office called 'suspicious' (with reasons such as 'Mentions immigration'), and a message from Mark Lenzi, a State Department official the thread calls a Republican, asking Twitter to 'look into and delete' 14 accounts. The thread says the House testimony about a Trump request to remove a Chrissy Teigen tweet (see engadget-2023-trump-white-house-teigen-request) prompted it. The Thread Reader copy dates the thread 19 February 2023; the capsule index dates it 18 February.
- Source
- Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), Twitter thread
- Date
- 18 February 2023
- Quoted from
- Post 10 of 17 (quoting Lenzi's message; Thread Reader copy)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1627098945359867904
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Reported: internal Twitter documents as selected, screenshotted and described by the thread's author after Twitter's owner gave the writers access; no complete archive is public and the one X capture opened (Part 1) rendered as an empty shell in the Wayback Machine, so the readable copy is the Thread Reader capture linked under archive (the posts themselves were not re-opened on X). The primary documents that would replace it are the underlying emails and Slack messages, which a court, Twitter or a regulator has not produced in full.