Latest Twitter Files Reveals Sen. King and State Dept Official Allegedly Used Site to Target Opponents

IMatt Taibbi, Independent Journalist, has released another set of “Twitter Files” Saturday Night using a series tweets to expose the internal communications between Twitter executives looking to reveal government officials and Twitter executives.” Target Constituents and a political opponent, as well as the ability to label different users’ accounts “Russian-controlled.”

Taibbi tweeted the most recent examples of Sen. Angus King (I-ME) and, separately, State Department Official Mark Lenzi attempting to influence Twitter via a series email.

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An email from Kevin Kane, Twitter Public Policy Manager. revealed The King’s “campaign director” Requested Twitter to censor 354 “suspicious” Twitter accounts of Eric Brakey’s campaign rival, Republican Maine State Senator Eric Brakey, include supporters.

King’s campaign team may have identified several reasons the accounts should be closed. considered “suspicious,” Citing such things as “Rand Paul visit excitement,” “Bot (averages 20 tweets a day),” “mentions immigration,” Eric Brakey, the U.S. Senate Republican nominee, is following his campaign rival.

King’s Office did not respond to the request for comment. Washington Examiner.

“If Dick Nixon sniffed glue, this is what his enemies list would look like,” Taibbi I wrote about King’s spreadsheet This is “suspicious” Twitter users

Jim Pfaff, the former Capitol Hill Chief Of Staff, said King used Twitter to pressure users and his political rivals. “clear ethics violation.”

“In the case of Angus King and others, this should be something going before Ethics Committees in the House or the Senate. They are literally using their power, influence and knowledge to shut down speech that they might find problematic,” Pfaff on the a “Twitter Spaces” Discussions on Saturday night “No member of Congress – unless they got someone who does research on this — would know that something was a bot.”

Pfaff then discussed how worrying it was King was sitting on U.S. Select Committee on Intelligence, 2018, when he allegedly pressed Twitter.

Brakey, King’s ex-Republican opponent in 2018, replied on Saturday night at Taibbi’s report about King allegedly trying silence his supporters.

“Matt Taibbi’s report shows that Angus King’s staffers tried to silence his political opponent and hundreds of constituents,” Brakey .

Brakey also added “What King’s staff appears to have done on his behalf is repugnant to American values … Senator King needs to come clean with the people of Maine about his attempts to censor voters and limit freedoms of speech.”

Taibbi Submitted You can follow us on Twitter “King’s spreadsheet gambit” Looked “tame” in its attempt at influence Twitter, in comparison with his previous reporting on the subject “crazy requests” Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA) allegedly gave the aforementioned information to him. He wanted to “ban a reporter and stop ‘any and all search results’ about a staffer.”

The journalist also communicated via Twitter. You have sent an email purportedly from Mark Lenzi (State Department official), who requested the removal of, Taibbi said, “The State Department”. “14 accounts distinguished among other things by skepticism of Russiagate.”

“In my work I have been able to identify a lot of Russian controlled Twitter accounts that have made it through some of your purges,” Lenzi wrote allegedly in an email to Twitter. “The below are some Russian government controlled accounts that I think you will want to look into and delete.”

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Taibbi commented in his reporting on Lenzi’s alleged emails that there was “no evidence” The users were “Russian controlled or bots” The situation was called “a clear First Amendment issue.”

Taibbi Summary His latest #TwitterFiles dispatches are as exposing “a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that’s not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.”