Lawyers for the Democratic National Committee tried an unusual tactic Friday in dealing with Wikileaks.

They turned to Twitter to serve the whistleblower website with a lawsuit.



@wikileaks By Court order, you are being served with the following legal documents: https://t.co/ICg8qWnsUy, https://t.co/ZP2tTPJ4pb, https://t.co/RKue30s4hM, https://t.co/q5g0G1rQpQ.

All of these documents may be found here: https://t.co/NOCgvQhh2j. — Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll Process Server (@ProcessServiceC) August 10, 2018

The committee filed the lawsuit in April against the Russian government, WikiLeaks, and the Trump campaign, claiming the parties conspired to influence the results of the 2016 election. The website had remained unresponsive to the DNC’s attempts to serve the lawsuit via email.

The DNC filed a motion last month in federal court in Manhattan asking for permission to serve the lawsuit to WikiLeaks on the social media platform, which the DNC argued the group remains active, CBS reported at the time. The judge approved of the method.

A Twitter account associated with the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll was established Friday. The account wrote to WikiLeaks that it was being served with several legal documents.

A spokesman for the law firm directed the Washington Examiner to a spokeswoman for the DNC, who confirmed the account was associated with the law firm.

WikiLeaks played a role in the dissemination of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and other Democratic officials during the campaign. An indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller alleges Russia stole thousands of emails and passed them along to WikiLeaks, who trickled out their release in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

The indictment also states Russian intelligence officials transferred emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks, which released them three days before the Democratic National Convention.

Assange has repeatedly dodged questions about the source of the hacked emails, but WikiLeaks has denied working for Russian intelligence.