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The US Department of Justice tried to use its subpoena power to reveal the identity of a person on Twitter who made fun of one of former Donald Trump’s top allies in Congress, according to a court document revealed Monday.
According to the document, first reported by The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Poulsen, the department — then under the control of former Attorney General William Barr — last year sought to compel Twitter to reveal who was behind the account, @NunesAlt.
The action came months after a judge threw out a lawsuit from Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican and Trump loyalist, which had alleged that the account and others like it were guilty of defamation.
Specifically, the Justice Department sought all “customer or subscriber account information” for @NunesAlt, beginning October 1, 2020. It also fought to prevent the demand from being made public, claiming that doing so could lead to the destruction of evidence.
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Article URL : https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-doj-tried-forcing-twitter-unmask-parody-devin-nunes-account-2021-5