Okay guys two things.

1. Taibbi is responding to the Feds memo Froday stating the Bureau “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.”

He's reiterating from the preponderance of the evidence that the accounts in question were mostly smaller and lower trafficked ones.

2. Much much much bigger. This is where it goes over the line from CIVIL TO CRIMINAL.

Coercing them. "The task force demanded to know how Twitter came to its unpopular conclusion." "Oddly, it included a bibliography of public sources - including a Wall Street Journal article - attesting to the prevalence of foreign threats, as if to show Twitter they got it wrong."

"Roth, receiving the questions... was “frankly perplexed by the requests here, which seem more like something we'd get from a congressional committee than the Bureau" He added he was not “comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the IC) demanding written answers.” The idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting, given that many agencies are barred from domestic operations

This is the strong arming part. They got too cozy. This is where Taibbi is showing us how they went over the line from good natured "tips" to "please do what YOUR GOVERNMENT is requesting you to do"

They are fucked.