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DHS chief: Twitter restricting government officials poses a threat to national security

By Haley Victory Smith
Published October 31, 2020 12:06am ET
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DHS chief: Twitter restricting government officials poses a threat to national security
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said that “censorship” by Twitter presents a threat to the United States’s national security. After Twitter removed a tweet from Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan and locked him out of his account for a time, Wolf wrote in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday. […]

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said that “censorship” by Twitter presents a threat to the United States’s national security.

After Twitter removed a tweet from Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan and locked him out of his account for a time, Wolf wrote in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday.

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