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Mysterious Government Agencies Participated in Suppressing Twitter Content

Mysterious government agencies were involved in censoring content along with Twitter Inc. on the social media platform, journalist Matt Taibbi said in newly-released Twitter Files.
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In one email from June 29, 2020, FBI San Francisco Field Office official Elvis Chan asked Twitter executives if he could invite an “OGA” to attend an upcoming event.
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“OGA Briefing” can also be frequently seen on the meeting agenda between Twitter and the Foreign Influence Task Force (TITF).

It was put under the “Russia Status” part of the meeting agenda.
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It’s unclear which agencies OGA was referring to, though Taibbi claimed it to be the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) citing several persons familiar with the agency.

Screenshots of emails shared by Taibbi show various government agencies including the FBI and CIA participated in meetings with Twitter.
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Baker was a general counsel at the FBI and a key figure in the Trump-Russia investigation.

Twitter was overwhelmed by requests from various agencies mostly coordinated by TITF and the FBI San Francisco Field Office before the 2020 election, Taibbi said.

“Email after email came from the San Francisco office heading into the election, often adorned with an Excel attachment,” he wrote. “There were so many government requests, Twitter employees had to improvise a system for prioritizing/triaging them.”
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In another case, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s fired ex-head of trust and safety, concluded that some pro-Maduro accounts from Venezuela were not connected to Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA).

OGA stands for Other Government Agencies.
Fine. Some accounts were not driven by some unknown automaton, yet, that doesn't mean the account owners weren't part of some OTHER Russian group or some local team loyal to Maduro only.