ha ha.....Jake changes the thread title because it's "misleading". Then he contradicts himself.
That's not to say the WMF (or whoever was attending the meetins on their behalf) weren't lying their asses off about what people were posting on Wikipedia and what they were (not) doing about it. All those companies were, though — they all have one agenda, which amounts to "don't curb our unfair advantages by changing Section 230 or requiring real-name authentication on social meda." To ask them to "police themselves" is moronic.
It was (and to some extent still is) about a million times easier and a billion times cheaper to just lie to the idiots in charge and tell them "everything is fine" than to actually "police themselves" in any meaningful way, as I'm sure we all recall quite vividly.
Yes, the WMF lies, but then everyone has learned to lie "strategically". S 230 is a great excuse for almost anything.
There should be NO surprise that anyone running a major web portal would have the DHS making "demands and/or requests" of them routinely. "Toe the line and cooperate or we'll make your lives miserable". One of the things resulting from 9/11 was the "secret National Security letter" occasionally issued because TERRORTERRORTERROR. Poking around in a website's traffic logs and histories is just everyday business now. Fishing expeditions.
I doubt these practices changed much under Trump, because Dubya and Barry also abused DHS capabilities on a routine basis. Despite being of questionable competence, the DHS, NSA, DIA, and several other intelligence agencies you've never heard of go around bragging that "we know everything you do online". It's a lie, and I suspect they mishandle investigations and lose databases, also on a routine basis.
Our situation did not originate with the public internet. It goes back to the 1930s, with nuts like J. Edgar Hoover, "Wild Bill" Donovan, and Harry Anslinger building federal institutions that are powerful, secretive, arrogant, and incompetent, all at once. They don't get better with time--just bigger and fatter and less competent.