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Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]
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#13Needs more context. I glossed over the PDF, but couldn't figure out what this is about. ELI5.
Judging by the dates, content, and mention of asking the NARA for the individuals assigned to the account...
I'm pretty sure this is record of what it took for the special counsel investigation to get access to the DMs of @realDonaldTrump.
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#14Needs more context. I glossed over the PDF, but couldn't figure out what this is about. ELI5.
The DOJ asked for access to Trump's twitter account, including DMs, deleted items, and drafts. Twitter stalled on producing this information so this hearing was the DOJ asking the judge to start hitting Twitter with fines until they could produce. There's also some confusion at the start because DOJ asked for other possible accounts that Trump might have used as a sockpuppet/backchannel means of communication and Twi…
> Twitter seems to either not be able to discover that, or can't find it
They clearly CAN, but don't want to. Their (X's lawyers) objections in the transcript are ridiculous (they claimed they don't have an "affiliated account" category - like really?!?) and when pressed for timeframes suddenly they can produce "impossible" data in less than 24h.
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#15At this point, Elon's purchase and seemingly-intentional brand-suicide looks more and more like a political favor.
I mean, yes, if we shave this with Hanlon's Razor, the outcome is the same, but the rightward swing of Elon's public statements certainly makes this look more like quid-pro-quo than an oopsie.
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#16Needs more context. I glossed over the PDF, but couldn't figure out what this is about. ELI5.
"Special Counsel Obtained Trump’s Direct Messages on Twitter"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/politics/trump-twitter...
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The DOJ asked for access to Trump's twitter account, including DMs, deleted items, and drafts. Twitter stalled on producing this information so this hearing was the DOJ asking the judge to start hitting Twitter with fines until they could produce. There's also some confusion at the start because DOJ asked for other possible accounts that Trump might have used as a sockpuppet/backchannel means of communication and Twi…
> Twitter seems to either not be able to discover that, or can't find it They clearly CAN, but don't want to. Their (X's lawyers) objections in the transcript are ridiculous (they claimed they don't have an "affiliated account" category - like really?!?) and when pressed for timeframes suddenly they can produce "impossible" data in less than 24h.
Was Twitter really as sophisticated as Facebook in this regard?
If @realdonaldtrump and @johnbarron are both tweeting from the same IP in the same time frame, could Twitter make the connection that both are the same user? Was there enough backtracking stored in their systems to know that?
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#19Trump didn't have the legendary opsec he's supposed to have.
No one ever thought Trump himself had good opsec.
(Well, barring the QAnon folks.)
His opsec has traditionally leaned more towards the "how did they recognize me with this moustache on?" realm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-e...
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#20My favorite part is when the government suggests to Twitter that they should Ctl-F to find 'associated accounts'
Google seems to be able to find associated accounts by seeing if one device is signed in multiple times. Same with Meta.
The court specifically asked for other accounts used by trump on the same device. This SHOULD be as simple as control-F. Twitter almost certainly stores some sort of device identifier that can accomplish this.