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Is it true: Twitter Files: Musk-released internal docs on FBI/DHS coordination (Dec 2022-2023)?

Partially True4% confidence

Partly — it's more complicated than the claim suggests.

FBI FITF weekly teleconferences with Twitter are documented in the Twitter Files. Account-review submissions by FBI and DHS-adjacent organisations are documented. Hunter Biden laptop suppression decision documented as internally made but within a broader government-engagement context. SCOTUS dismissed Murthy v. Missouri on standing June 2024 — First Amendment merits unresolved. Core coordination: established. Unconstitutional coercion: legally unresolved.

The claim

Beginning in December 2022, Elon Musk released internal Twitter documents to journalists including Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and Michael Shellenberger. The releases documented FBI Foreign Inf

Key evidence

FBI FITF weekly teleconferences with Twitter documented

Government characterised communications as routine information-sharing

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