SAN FRANCISCO — A coalition of technology companies is backing Twitter Inc.’s legal push to expand what companies can divulge about government surveillance requests in national security investigations.

In an amici curiae brief filed on Friday, a group that includes the operators of WordPress, Medium, Reddit and Wikipedia contend that their free speech rights are violated by regulations that permit them to disclose the number of national security requests they receive, but only in wide bands.

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