Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced he sent a legal notice to Twitter asking the platform to preserve evidence relating to communications between the company and the federal government relating to “misinformation” or “content moderation.”
On the platform, Schmitt, a Republican, made reference to new owner Elon Musk’s decision to release communications to journalist Matt Taibbi and others—known as the “Twitter Files”—that showed former FBI official and then-Twitter general counsel James Baker communicated with other Twitter managers about the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story. According to emails released by Taibbi, Baker had called for the laptop story to remain censored amid discussion about how to proceed with the story weeks ahead of the General Election.
