Twitter Files Part 5 reveals aftermath of unprecedented Trump ban
Fox News’ Mike Emanuel and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley on the latest release of the 'Twitter Files,' media's failure to cover the discoveries"Twitter Files" Monday revealed that staffers believed that tweets written by former President Trump around the events of Jan. 6 had not actually violated its policies despite the company saying so at the time.
After citing the public outcry of"over 300 Twitter employees" who signed an open letter published in the Washington Post pressuring then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to ban Trump, Weiss revealed"Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had *not* violated Twitter’s policies." "Later, Navaroli would testify to the House Jan. 6 committee:'For months I had been begging and anticipating and attempting to raise the reality that if nothing—if we made no intervention into what I saw occuring, people were going to die,'" Weiss tweeted.
Twitter deleted a 2020 tweet from Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad who said it was"a right" for Muslims to"kill millions of French people," saying the tweet"glorifies violence" but the leader remained on the platform. Twitter gave similar treatment to Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari. Yoel Roth, Twitter's then-head of Trust and Safety, wrote to a colleague,"Multiple tweeps [Twitter employees] have quoted the Banality of Evil suggesting that people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders."
"But Twitter’s COO Parag Agrawal—who would later succeed Dorsey as CEO—told Head of Security Mudge Zatko: ‘I think a few of us should brainstorm the ripple effects’ of Trump's ban. Agrawal added: 'centralized content moderation IMO has reached a breaking point now," Weiss reported. Parts three and four were dedicated to outlining what led to Trump being removed from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021. Musk reinstated Trump's Twitter account in November.which covers the dates of October 2020-January 6, 2021, Taibbi went over"the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.
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