Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline to comply, according to court documents released Wednesday.

    • ForestOrca
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      11 months ago

      Umm, no X paid way too small of a fine, AND still had to comply with the court’s order. Could have done it without the hassle, but chose to cost X’s bottom line.

      • Bwaz
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        211 months ago

        But Elon probably routinely has lost that much most times he’s posted dumb stuff on Twitter himself. Hard to meaningfully fine a multi billionaire. But apparently he caved before the government got to really trying.

        • @[email protected]
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          For sure, but the fine wasn’t for noncompliance, it was for three days of noncompliance. Pushing that to a week would have cost him over $10m, pushing it to two weeks would have been almost a billion dollars