You can say that about basically any interaction between any government and social media including anti child porn or other law enforcement activity. The question is if the interaction is unacceptably not if it exists.
All the while the government was running their own fake bot propaganda accounts and having Twitter white-list them against their bot filters.
That is not “protecting Democracy from foreign interference”, it’s literally the opposite, a government agency convincing private companies to suppress information they knew to be true, leading to a less informed electorate.
If the FBI had done exactly the same thing but it was Trump’s drug addict son’s laptop, it’s likely that all the “nothing to see here” people here would have been screaming for FBI heads to roll (figuratively) for the last two years.
The bottom line is that our bureaucracies are not supposed to act in a partisan fashion, and they did.
Sure, Twitter’s new management is changing who is being censored and tossing out juicy bits of dirt, and the set of owners after this will presumably do the same. Waving jazz hands and saying influence doesn’t move these discussions forward.