Staff members of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “wrote to Twitter quite often” to seek the suppression and removal of content they disagreed with, according to journalist and “Twitter Files” author Matt Taibbi.
In a Twitter thread posted Jan. 13, Taibbi supplemented previous revelations regarding the former House Intelligence Committee chair’s privileged relationship with Twitter with a few more examples of questionable conduct.
One instance Taibbi cited was an April 2020 email exchange in which Schiff’s staff members contacted Twitter to seek the removal of an unflattering “deepfake” photo—an image that has been digitally manipulated—of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden that had been shared by President Donald Trump….