Government drops demands to unmask @ALT_USCIS after Twitter files lawsuit

Just one day after Twitter filed a lawsuit to block the US government from forcing it to reveal the identity of who is behind the @ALT_USCIS account, the government has dropped its request. News of the lawsuit saw the account's follower count more than quadruple as Twitter users jumped to see what was being posted by what are believed to be United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employees. As a result of the government dropping its request, Twitter has stopped the lawsuit. The reasons behind the government's decision is not entirely clear. Twitter argued that a request to reveal the… [Continue Reading]