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Re:The Twitter Files, Part Six by Apocryphon on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:54PM (#34030900)
The OP is about FBI policing of federal election misinformation, which is both part of the federal government’s purview:

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

And as shady or problematic as their relationship with Twitter is, is borne out of legal precedence:

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/19/when-government-urges-p...

Not to mention, in the last decade, by the process of jawboning:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/informal-government-coercion-and...

So really, your complaints go up further than you think. This is something that has been happening for decades based on judicial decisions, you just weren’t aware of it.

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