Wed Mar 8, 2023 – 3:03 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly made more than “350 specific demands” of Twitter after free-speech advocate Elon Musk took over the company, according to newly released documents.
Among those demands were calls for Musk to explain why he allowed journalists to access the so-called “Twitter Files,” and to provide the government with a list of the journalists who viewed those documents.
The “Twitter Files” refers to the tranches of internal documents and messages that have been released following Musk’s takeover, and which have revealed pre-Musk Twitter’s suppression of certain conservative accounts, throttling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and its collaboration with the federal government to control the narrative surrounding COVID-19.
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The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the revelations Tuesday, noted that the FTC and its lawyers sent more than a dozen letters to Twitter in the wake of the tech entrepreneur’s buy-out of the platform.
In those letters, according to the report, the FTC “asked the company to ‘identify all journalists’ granted access
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