Advocacy groups that defend journalists and freedom of the press are deeply concerned about threats to their colleagues in Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. Yet they appear oddly silent about allegations the U.S. is helping Ukrainian intelligence censor and threaten journalists worldwide who undermine its wartime narratives.
The FBI went to bat on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, in asking Twitter to not only remove 175 accounts but reveal private information about their creators, according to March 2022 communications revealed by the Twitter Files this month.
Flagged accounts include “American and Canadian journalists” including Aaron Maté, Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth told FBI Special Agent Aleksandr Kobzanets, who is assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
Kobzanets sent the SBU’s blacklist to Twitter with the justification that the accounts were “suspected … in spreading fear and disinformation.” He has spoken openly as […]
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