US special counsel Jack Smith acquired direct messages — potentially including deleted messages — from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, unsealed court transcripts have revealed.
Ari Holtzblatt, another attorney for Twitter, hinted that the data the company’s engineers pulled may include deleted direct messages, too.
The company pulled three separate versions of Trump’s Twitter data, and not all of it was available to review at the time of the hearing in February.
He said later that Twitter engineers “were able to pull [data that] included deleted direct messages and not just nondeleted” ones.
The data Twitter served up on February 9th was in response to a warrant the court issued on January 19th.
It complied with 808 of them in full and did so partially for another 154, said a report in Rest of World earlier this year.
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US special counsel Jack Smith acquired direct messages — potentially including deleted messages — from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, unsealed court transcripts have revealed.
Ari Holtzblatt, another attorney for Twitter, hinted that the data the company’s engineers pulled may include deleted direct messages, too.
The company pulled three separate versions of Trump’s Twitter data, and not all of it was available to review at the time of the hearing in February.
He said later that Twitter engineers “were able to pull [data that] included deleted direct messages and not just nondeleted” ones.
The data Twitter served up on February 9th was in response to a warrant the court issued on January 19th.
It complied with 808 of them in full and did so partially for another 154, said a report in Rest of World earlier this year.
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