Twitter will reveal user in defamation case
Twitter will reveal user in defamation case
Twitter has agreed to divulge the identity of a user who falsely claimed that a research official at the Iona Institute helped to hide an American fugitive.
The social media giant has one month to provide Angelo Bottone, who works at the socially conservative advocacy group, with the name, telephone number and IP address of the user behind the account @ElodieBurke.
The account posted a number of tweets in October 2017 claiming that Mr Bottone had helped to hide James Kopp. Kopp was on the FBI’s most-wanted list after he shot Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed legal abortions in New York state.