On behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in March 2022 an FBI agent sent Twitter a list of accounts that “are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.” The request from the SBU? Remove the account and hand over their creators’ personal information.
This revelation, from the Twitter files, was covered in a June 7, 2023 article at the Grayzone by Aaron Maté, who appeared on the list relayed to Twitter by the FBI on March 27, 2022.
FBI Special Agent Aleksandr Kobzanets, serving at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, sent the request to two twitter executives and four FBI colleagues.
“Thank you very much for your time to discuss the assistance to Ukraine,” he wrote. “I am including a list of accounts I received over a couple of weeks from the Security Service of Ukraine. These accounts are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation. For your review and consideration.”
(Did you know it was the job of the FBI to investigate “fear"?)
