Jim Baker, a former FBI general counsel and, until Tuesday, Twitter’s deputy general counsel, was savaged online for his alleged role in blocking new Twitter owner Elon Musk’s efforts to publicize internal documents about the platform’s suppression of information during the 2020 election.
- Some critics also noted his involvement in circulating the Steele dossier to the press, prompting the long-running and ultimately fruitless special counsel investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.