Exhibit 1110 ยท Social-media thread (Twitter Files)
The Twitter Files: How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In (thread, 3 January 2023)
identified by the U.S.. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber-operations.
Thirty-four-post thread on the second half of 2017. It describes Twitter's internal review of Russia-linked accounts, an October 2017 conclusion that few were connected to Russia, a September 2017 press conference by Senator Mark Warner calling Twitter's report 'frankly inadequate on every level', and a Twitter policy director's note on legislation that Senators Warner, Klobuchar and McCain would introduce. Post 31 says Twitter settled on removing content 'at our sole discretion' in public while privately agreeing to off-board accounts identified by the U.S. intelligence community as state-sponsored cyber operations.
- Source
- Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), Twitter thread
- Date
- 3 January 2023
- Quoted from
- Post 31 of 34 (Thread Reader copy of the thread of 3 Jan 2023; the double period is in the copy)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372352872783872
- 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.