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Twitter staff knew Trump didn’t violate policy – Musk

Without doubt, every sound mind knows Twitter was used as State tools. manipulation, fraud, Deception, it is just unlimited. According to the report that was release as part of New Twitter owner (ELON MUSK) transparency and freedom of speech policy is the most important, as Twitter have been involved in disinformation scandal from the previous management.

The company’s employees agreed that the sitting US president hadn’t “incited violence,” documents reveal

Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump in the days following the January 6 Capitol riot even as employees admitted they had no legitimate reason to ban the sitting US president, according to internal communications reviewed by journalist Bari Weiss.

The fifth installment of Twitter Files was endorsed by the platform’s CEO, Elon Musk, who responded to it by saying that “under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump… even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn’t violate the rules.”

While messages between Twitter staffers posted by Weiss on Monday reveal widespread unease that Trump was “going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules,” they also showed general agreement that the embattled president had not actually “incited violence” – not even in a “coded” way – with his tweets on and around the day of the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally. 

Read the full story: https://www.rt.com/news/568133-twitter-files-trump-ban-censorship/

Hundreds of Twitter employees nevertheless signed an open letter to the Washington Post demanding CEO Jack Dorsey ban the president, going so far as to imply their employer had played a part in what president-elect Joe Biden and the legacy media were already calling an “insurrection.”

Legal, Policy and Trust head Vijaya Gadde reportedly seized on someone’s suggestion that Trump’s technically-innocent tweets could be interpreted as “coded incitement to further violence.” At the same time, members of the platform’s “scaled enforcement team” appeared to embrace the idea that Trump was the “leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler and on that basis and on the totality of his Tweets, he should be deplatformed,” according to messages posted by Weiss. 

Following a fraught staff meeting, Twitter reportedly announced Trump’s permanent suspension “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” No actual Twitter rule had been broken, especially given the leeway allowed political figures in the name of public interest. 

Then-COO Parag Agrawal observed to Head of Security Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko that “centralized content moderation IMO has reached a breaking point now.” 

READ MORE: Twitter Files reveal blitz to contain Trump

Weiss and her fellow Twitter Files reporters were selected by Musk to analyze the internal communications that led to Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the ban of Trump. Musk has also promised revelations about the silencing of alternative views on Covid-19.

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