By Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg News
Twitter Inc. is dropping its free-speech lawsuit against the Trump administration over the government’s effort to unmask users critical of the president’s policies.
Twitter said in a court filing Friday, one day after it filed the case, that the U.S. had withdrawn its summons to learn the identity of one of the so-called ALT handles purported to be the work of current and former federal employees who have slammed Trump’s policies.
“Because the summons has now been withdrawn, Twitter voluntarily dismisses without prejudice all claims against defendants,” the company said in the filing in San ...
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