[Federalist] The head of Twitter’s censorship scheme to shadowban conservative accounts and posts across the platform previously worked as an operative for the FBI and CIA.According to a now-unavailable LinkedIn profile discovered by journalist Andy Ngo, Jeff Carlton, whose prior work included serving as a federal intelligence officer, became the leading member of Twitter’s Strategic Response Team (SRT) last month. As revealed in a batch of "Twitter Files" released by reporter Bari Weiss on Thursday, SRT is one of the main groups at Twitter tasked with shadowbanning conservative accounts and tweets on the platform.
In his LinkedIn profile, Carlton states that his role as SRT head involves "resolving the highest-profile Trust & Safety escalations," as well as managing "crises and non-standard incidents in content moderation and customer support to promote ’healthy public conversations.'" Before leading the group in his new role, Carlton served as a senior program manager at Twitter, starting in May 2021.