SAN FRANCISCO — Litigation is rarely the fastest way to resolve a dispute. But sometimes the threat posed by a lawsuit—and the publicity associated with it—can spur action more quickly than other tactics.
That seems to be in the case in the stand-off between Twitter Inc. and the Department of Homeland Security over the government’s efforts to expose the person or or people behind @ALT_USCIS, one of the so-called “alternative agency” Twitter accounts.