American investigative reporter Matt Taibi recently released a number of internal Twitter documents he obtained.

These documents show that U.S. government agencies, including the FBI and the CIA, manipulate social media to achieve the purpose of conducting cyber information warfare and manipulating public opinion.

A few days ago, in an interview with Russia Today TV, he described in detail the inside story of the US government's manipulation of social media.

　　Taibi said in the interview that the disclosed internal documents of Twitter show that Twitter receives thousands of account lists every day, and these account lists are compiled by the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Department of From the State Department, Treasury Department, and other government agencies, asking Twitter to shut them down.

　　Matt Taibi, American Investigative Reporter: You’ll see a note at the top of the message that says, this was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security, this was flagged by the FBI, and then there’s a long list of accounts underneath.

This tells us something very important, Twitter is dealing with requests from federal law enforcement agencies.

　　Taibi said that once, Twitter employees received a list of closed accounts from the U.S. State Department. The reason given by the State Department was that the so-called "spreading of negative information about Ukraine" by these accounts was directed by Russia.

At the time, Twitter employees argued that no action should be taken because the State Department had not provided any evidence.

At the insistence of government agencies, they were ultimately unable to say "no" to these demands.

　　American investigative reporter Matt Taibi: An internal Twitter employee came out and said, although normally I might say, let’s wait and see if there is more evidence, but this possibility is getting smaller and smaller.

Our government partners are becoming increasingly aggressive.

　　The documents revealed that around 2017, Twitter's internal management was frequently pressured to confirm that some accounts were operated by so-called "Russian agents".

Some employees reported that "no evidence of a connection with Russia was found", but then said that he would try to "open his mind" (brainstorm) to find more clues.

　　The leaked internal Twitter documents also show that those government agencies urged Twitter to censor accounts that did not align with the official U.S. position.

For example, regarding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, some accounts that publish information beneficial to Russia will be shut down by the US government.

　　Marin Jay, guest reporter of Russia Today TV: The U.S. government claims to support freedom of speech, but in fact, the more we study the scandals between the U.S. government and these social media platforms, Facebook before, and now Twitter, the more we It will be found that the US government's statement is not true.

The U.S. government only seems to want to support rhetoric that fits its own narrative.