It is for US companies operating in China.

In any case, it appears that the fabricated evidence was intended to suggest to the employee in charge of terminating accounts that the targeted users were violating US law in addition to Chinese law.

It is not normal for a US company to share data with a foreign government and hide that from the public.

I was inclined to agree with you, but then I remembered the case of Saudi Arabia's guys inside Twitter: https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-insiders-saudi-arabia-sp...

Spies are not normal.