{"id":35287,"date":"2021-05-17T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T01:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35287"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T01:32:21","slug":"pressed-on-parody-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35287","title":{"rendered":"PRESSED ON PARODY ACCOUNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration subpoenaed Twitter for information on who was operating an account parodying Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a close ally of the former president, according to court documents unsealed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Monday unsealed a motion from Twitter filed on March 10 to quash the subpoena that was issued in November. In the newly-public filing, Twitter argued that it was concerned the government was aiding Nunes&#8217; legal efforts to attack and unmask his online critics and said that the subpoena violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears to Twitter that the Subpoena may be related to Congressman Devin Nunes\u2019s repeated efforts to unmask individuals behind parody accounts critical of him,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zwmdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrrdpppm_ucyhnnwqwshfqhqmffyq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zwmdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrrdpppm_ucyhnnwqwshfqhqmffyq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1621387624066000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFk6HSxkatKMHL6BETHOewi0rFOAA\">the motion reads<\/a>. &#8220;His efforts to suppress critical speech are as well-publicized as they are unsuccessful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration subpoenaed Twitter for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35288,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions\/35288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}