But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.
What stands out is the sheer quantity of reports from the government.
23.“I can't believe the FBI is policing jokes on Twitter. That's crazy,” said @Tiberius444.
44.The takeaway: what most people think of as the “deep state” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) NGOs. The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless.
Tldr: Twitter was deep in bed with the government