According to the report the targets of Hobbs' censorship over the course of a year included a state legislator who was tasked with the oversight of her department. The emails reveal that through multiple takedown requests sent to Twitter, now known as X App, from Hobbs' office were not related to "public safety, governance, or election administration," but instead seemed to suppress criticism of Hobbs and attacks on her from a political standpoint.

When WinRed, the company that processes nearly all online Republican campaign contributions, recently released its enormous trove of donor data for the first half of the year, donations were conspicuously absent for one presidential candidate: Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.

It was no technical glitch. The DeSantis campaign worked with WinRed in a way that prevented the disclosure of donor information, ensuring that the campaign’s small donors would remain anonymous, according to a person familiar with the campaign.

The arrangement appears to be the first of its kind for a presidential campaign since WinRed’s founding four years ago and could presage a return to an era in which far less information on small donors is made public, at least for Republicans.

Representatives for DeSantis declined to describe details of the arrangement. The person familiar with the campaign said the aim was to prevent other campaigns from poaching DeSantis’ donors.

But the move has other effects, including obscuring exactly how many — or how few — online donations DeSantis has received.

His dependency on larger contributors has been a source of concern for his campaign, after his first financial report last month revealed that less than 15% of his $20 million haul had come from donors who gave less than $200. News emerged Tuesday that DeSantis had replaced his campaign manager as part of a broad shake-up.

Matt Mackowiak, a Republican consultant based in Texas, said he was not convinced of the value of concealing small donors — “Generally, small donors don’t care about disclosure,” he said — but he also did not see much of a threat to transparency in the campaign’s arrangement.

“To me, the single most important aspect of the transparent philosophical debate is: Is somebody buying influence?” Mackowiak said. “You’re not going to buy anyone with a $200 or less donation.”

[color=red]The former CEO of WinRed, Carl Sceusa, is currently the chief financial and chief technology officer of the DeSantis campaign.[color]

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