Twitter fined $350K for taking too long to hand over January 6th data
by Makena Kelly from The Verge - All Posts on (#6DPQ5)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk's Twitter was fined $350,000 for refusing to comply with a search warrant on Donald Trump's Twitter account earlier this year, according to new court documents unsealed Wednesday. The warrant was issued as part of a Justice Department special investigation.
In January, special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for former President Trump's Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, as part of his investigation into Trump's role in interfering with the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The unsealed opinion says Twitter, which is now known as X, objected to producing the information demanded in the warrant on February 1st, arguing that its...