Pipeline's efforts to unmask critics by subpoena met with silence from Facebook Laurence Hammack Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021 Updated Dec 1, 2022 0 1 of 2 Screenshot from Facebook An aerial view shows a section of land being prepared for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, stopping short of a creek. 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Mountain Valley Pipeline seeks the identity of its anonymous critics Mountain Valley Pipeline has filed a subpoena with Facebook, asking it for the identities of the people who set up the Appalachians Against Pi…
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