Twitter may have even produced deleted messages.
after missing a January 7th deadline to comply with a search warrant that earned the company a $350,000 fine.
Among many other things, the warrant sought the former president’s tweets , likes, retweets, and any direct messages “sent from, received by, stored in draft form in, or otherwise associated with” his account, @realDonaldTrump. Twitter engineers were able to provide what Twitter lawyer George Varghese previously called “confidential communications” associated with the account. He said that an initial analysis showed that “some volume” of direct messages was present on the account but didn’t say exactly how many messages that amounted to. Ari Holtzblatt, another attorney for Twitter, hinted that the data the company’s engineers pulled may includedirect messages, too.
One dataset came from Trump’s account as it existed then in the company’s production environment, while two others came from “prior preservations of the subject account,” dated January 3rd–9th, 2021, and January 11th–12th, 2021, respectively. Holtzblatt added that the latter snapshot contained data going back to 2006. 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. A lawyer for the company, which was in disarray at the time
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