Part 5 of Elon Musk’s Twitter Files was released by Bari Weiss on Sunday.
Part 5 reveals internal discussions on the day President Trump was permanently banned from Twitter.
Under pressure from activist employees, Twitter banned Trump, a sitting US President, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn’t violate any policies.
President Trump’s account was permanently banned from Twitter on January 8, 2021.
After January 6, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter to ban Trump.
One Twitter employee, who is from China, spoke out and said banning Trump will destroy the public conversation.
“We have to do the right thing and ban this account,” one Twitter staffer said.
In the early afternoon of January 8, The Washington Post published an open letter signed by over 300 Twitter employees to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Trump’s ban. “We must examine Twitter’s complicity in what President-Elect Biden has rightly termed insurrection.”
Twitter staff assigned to evaluate Trump’s tweets concluded that he never violated Twitter’s policies.
“It’s pretty clear he’s saying the ‘American Patriots’ are the ones who voted for him and not the terrorists (we can call them that, right?) from Wednesday.”
Another Twitter staffer agreed: “Don’t see incitement angle here.”
“I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” wrote Anika Navaroli, a Twitter policy official. “I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no vios”—or violations—“for the DJT one.”
Twitter Safety assessed Trump’s tweets did not violate policies.
