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Matt Taibbi, who released the original Twitter files, has dropped a continuation of his deep dive into the censorship regime under the company’s old leadership.

Past drops have shown us that the FBI was intimately involved in policing free speech on the platform, including having 80 agents assigned to deciding what was or wasn’t “disinformation.” Lines of communication were set up so that agents could tell Twitter’s decision-makers what to censor. The relationship was so intimate that the FBI even reimbursed the company millions of dollars for their cooperation.

But according to Taibbi, the FBI wasn’t the only government agency influencing the social media giant.

A chief end result was that thousands of official “reports” flowed to Twitter from all over, through the FITF and the FBI’s San Francisco field office.

OGA, or “Other Government Organization,” can be a euphemism for CIA, according to multiple former intelligence officials and contractors. Chuckles one: “They think it's mysterious, but it's just conspicuous."

It was an open secret at Twitter that one of its executives was ex-CIA, which is why (Elvis Chan) referred to that executive’s “former employer.”

Twitter was holding conference calls with FBI agents and CIA operatives. Taibbi was able to use the names and statements in the emails to ascertain that “OGA” (other government agency) actually stands for the US spy agency. Remember, the CIA isn’t supposed to operate on domestic soil, and I’m pretty sure a company operated out of San Francisco qualifies as that. But hey, when have rules applied throughout any of this saga?

All of this government interference at Twitter was carried out under the guise of a “foreign interference task force” (FITF in the emails). Yet, as Taibbi notes, most of the reports being forwarded contained information that originated domestically from American citizens, meaning the CIA was involved in quashing speech on US soil. Twitter, as it did with its relationship with the FBI, was dutiful to follow any “recommendations.” The company’s obedience was a constant in the correspondence, with its executives making themselves dependent on the government-to-private sector pipeline that had been set up.