Court Rules vs. Twitter in Bid to Reveal Surveillance Requests From U.S. Government

The social network originally filed suit against the Department of Justice in October 2014

Twitter expressed disappointment at coming out on the losing end of a six-year court battle in which it sought the right to reveal surveillance requests received from the U.S. government.

The social network filed its suit versus the U.S. Department of Justice in October 2014 with the hopes of adding more detailed information on the scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government to its biannual transparency reports.

However, Kanishka Singh of Reuters reported that U.S.

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