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Twitter fined $350K for delay in providing Trump account records to special counsel

  • Special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump's Twitter account records.
  • Twitter missed deadlines to comply and challenged a nondisclosure order prohibiting alerting Trump.
  • A federal judge held Twitter in contempt, imposing a $350,000 fine.
  • Twitter appealed but the federal appeals court upheld the contempt finding and fine.
  • The search warrant was related to investigating Trump's actions regarding the 2020 election.
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