Judge Rules Twitter Can’t Publish Transparency Report On Surveillance Involvement

Mealey's (April 20, 2020, 3:19 PM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — In a case that she said “underscores the tension between the First Amendment and national security,” a California federal judge on April 17 reversed a three-year old ruling in favor of Twitter Inc., holding that subsequent declarations from Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel demonstrated that information the social network sought to publicly disclose about its mandated compliance with government surveillance requests was classified (Twitter Inc. v. William P. Barr, et al., No. 4:14-cv-04480, N.D. Calif.)....