Opinion by Kathleen Parker: Trump’s tweets were harmful. And just to be clear, Twitter helped.
The former president’s towering capacity for babble via social media was anything but harmless, as we learned last year. Anyone who doubted his dark intentions after he lost reelection to Joe Biden — including those who appreciated his inciteful, not to be confused with insightful, tweets — must now admit that harm was done. Not just to the Capitol but to our Constitution and the peaceful transfer of power that is a miracle of our democratic republic.
That eventual action was too little too late for the five people who died as a result of that day and the more than 100 officers who suffered injuries. Navaroli has had her own personal safety concerns, which is why the committee protected her identity — until Rep. Jamie B. Raskin revealed it in awith The Post’s Drew Harwell published the same day, she described testifying before the committee as “terrifying.
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment Friday. In an earlier statement, vice president for public policy Jessica Herrera-Flanigan said the company took “unprecedented steps” to respond to threats during the 2020 election, and “leveraged” those steps to respond quickly to the Jan. 6 attack.
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