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The FBI handed nearly $3.5 million of taxpayers money to Twitter to pay its staff to handle requests from the bureau as it sought to ban accounts. | A Twitter employee wrote in a February 2020 email that the company's Safety, Content & Law Enforcement (SCALE) had "collected $3,415,323" in less than two years from the FBI for "law-enforcement related projects." The email, which was revealed by journalist Michael Shellenberger, stated that SCALE had instituted a "reimbursement program" in exchange for devoting staff hours to "processing requests from the FBI." The emails was entitled "Run the business - We made money!." The accounts the FBI asked Twitter to ban were largely linked to conservatives and "foreign influence operations."