Sanctions were applied after the social media platform delayed compliance with a federal search warrant that required Twitter to hand over Donald Trump’s Twitter data without telling the former president about the warrant for 180 days.

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    11 months ago

    350k is a slap. Criminal charges should be made agaist leaders who ordered the delays.

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      11 months ago

      It was doubling every day. They were scared of day 15 where it would’ve been 780mil for the day and over 1.562billion total.

      Every day doubling is a really good consequence, the fact that it only took twitter 3 days to comply once the penalty started actually hitting should confirm that

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        11 months ago

        It took 6 months, and they got fined because they broke the law. If the company knewkon day one it would face criminal charges for non compliance after a period for appeal we would have seen results months ago.

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      11 months ago

      Bro, Elon gutted Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t have the right people to get this information. I wonder if it sat in a mailbox for a day before they even had someone look at it.

      Twitter isn’t a well run company anymore. This could be pure incompetence.