The FBI has refused to say how many social media companies it works with, defending their actions after it emerged that agents from the bureau regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found questionable.
Officials from the bureau even asked for Twitter to hand over the locations from where the Twitter accounts were being operated, in a disturbing move that many saw as an attack on the First Amendment.
One user targeted by the FBI, who goes by @Lexitollah, said: ‘Seems like prima facie 1A violation.’
I would not be surprised to find worse has gone on in Canada.
“My efforts fell short of my own high personal standard for transparency and accountability.” — International Trade Minister Mary Ng.
Polish prosecutors are investigating a “violent release of energy” at the national police headquarters amid media reports that the chief of police fired a grenade launcher in his office.
An activist who dressed up as controversial Canadian trans teacher Kayla Lemieux at a school board meeting in October to protest her presence in the classroom has been banned from the district’s properties for life.
