He also eliminated Twitter’s policy on COVID-19 misinformation and welcomed back a long list of users who had been previously banned, including neo-Nazis, COVID deniers and Trump, who was kicked off after the attack on the Capitol for glorifying violence. Since taking over he’s transformed the influential site, laying off much of its staff, including workers dedicated to ferreting out misinformation and hate speech. The warrant arrived at Twitter amid rapid changes instituted by Musk, who purchased the platform last year. 6, Trump sent tweets urging his Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the election. 6, 2021, to spread false statements about the election that prosecutors allege were designed to sow mistrust in the democratic process. Trump used his Twitter account in the weeks leading up to his supporters’ attack on the Capitol on Jan. Possibilities include data about when and where the posts were written, their engagement and the identities of other accounts that reposted Trump’s content. It’s unclear what information Smith may have sought from the platform. Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
His legal team has indicated it will argue that Trump was relying on the advice of lawyers in 2020 and had the right to challenge an election he believed was rigged. Trump says he is innocent and has portrayed the investigation as politically motivated. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor Trump, a Republican, has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of Congress’ certification of Biden’s win. Smith has charged Trump, in an indictment unsealed last week, with conspiring to subvert the will of voters and cling to power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden. It didn’t fully comply with the order until Feb. Twitter, however, only turned over some records that day. 7, but gave the company an opportunity to hand over the documents by 5 p.m. A judge found Twitter to be in contempt after a court hearing on Feb. The warrant ordered Twitter to provide the records by Jan. The judges wrote that Twitter “did not question the validity of the search warrant” but argued that the nondisclosure agreement violated the First Amendment and wanted the court to assess the legality of the agreement before it handed any information over. Twitter objected to the nondisclosure agreement, saying four days after the compliance deadline that it would not produce any of the account information, according to the ruling. The court found that disclosing the warrant could risk that Trump would “would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation” by giving him “an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior” or notify his allies, the filing says. The government also obtained a nondisclosure agreement that had prohibited Twitter from disclosing the search warrant, the filing says. 17 directing Twitter to produce information on Trump’s account after a court “found probable cause to search the Twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses,” according to the ruling. Prosecutors got the search warrant on Jan. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, sent an automated reply to a request for comment, saying it would respond soon. The appeals court rejected Twitter’s claim that it should not have been held in contempt or sanctioned. The details were included in a decision from the federal appeals court in Washington stemming from a legal battle over the warrant that has played out under seal and behind closed doors for months. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for delay in complying, according to court documents released Wednesday.
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