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US govt drops order to unmask anti-Trump Twitter account

Twitter case was spurred by a recent wave of so-called alt-accounts that emerged after Trump's inauguration

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The logo for the immigration Twitter account @alt_uscis, the subject of administrative summons from the US government to Twitter. Photo: Reuters

Mike Isaac | NYT San Francisco
Last month, the federal government issued a summons ordering Twitter to hand over information about an anonymous account that had posted messages critical of the Trump administration. Now, the government has blinked.

Customs and Border Protection on Friday withdrew its demand that Twitter unmask the anonymous account, a day after the social media company sued the government to block the summons. The person or people behind the account, @ALT_USCIS, had claimed to be a current employee of Citizenship and Immigration Services and had regularly posted messages at odds with White House policy.
 
The government’s move defused a potential standoff pitting a

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