Trump accused the DOJ of "secretly attacking" his Twitter account.

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.

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      391·
      1 year ago

      The fine was $50K per day, and by the time they complied it had gotten to $350K. They then went to court to fight the fine, and have not definitively lost.

      • Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world
        81·
        1 year ago

        Just for clarification purposes, its 50k per day, doubling every day of noncompliance. So day 1 is 50k, day 2 is an additional 100k, and day 3 is an additional 200k. 3 days = 350k. I agree that it’s not enough, but if they dug their heels in, it would grow really high, really fast, so it was a pretty effective fine.

        • Pipoca@lemmy.world
          13·
          1 year ago

          In particular, by day 5 it’s over a million dollars per day, and by day 15 it’s over a billion dollars per day.

          If they sat on it for a month, it’d be a ~50 trillion fine that day.

          There’s a reason it only took them 3 days to comply.