Sanctions were applied after the social media platform delayed compliance with a federal search warrant that required Twitter to hand over Donald Trump’s Twitter data without telling the former president about the warrant for 180 days.

  • Ryumast3r@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It was doubling every day. They were scared of day 15 where it would’ve been 780mil for the day and over 1.562billion total.

    Every day doubling is a really good consequence, the fact that it only took twitter 3 days to comply once the penalty started actually hitting should confirm that

    • hglman@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It took 6 months, and they got fined because they broke the law. If the company knewkon day one it would face criminal charges for non compliance after a period for appeal we would have seen results months ago.