“The House will be investigating “threats to the First Amendment,” like “the idea that the FBI was paying Twitter $3.4 million to help them suppress information.”
What FactCheck.org found
An unidentified Twitter employee wrote in an email that the company had received over $3.4 million from the FBI since October 2019 as reimbursement for Twitter's processing of legal requests for user information.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jim Jordan (U.S. Representative) made this claim around 29 January 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 February 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Jim Jordan has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.