X, formerly Twitter, lost an appeal to the Supreme Court who refused to take up the constitutionality of the federal government’s ban on disclosing the exact numbers of receipts of national security surveillance of users. (CNBC, January 8, 2024 by Dan Mangan)
Current law only allows generalized statistics on federal information requests, but X held that government censorship should only occur when there is an imminent risk to national security from sharing exact data. (Ars Technica, January 8, 2024, by Ashley Belanger)