62. “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?” Safe to say Trump’s “Go home with love & in peace” tweet mid-riot didn’t go over well at Twitter HQ:
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63. A few last notes about January 6th. Roth at one point looked and found Trump had a slew of duplicate bot applications:
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64. By the end of the first day, the top execs are still trying to apply rules. By the next day, they will contemplate a major change in approach. Watch Shellen BergerMD this weekend for the play-by-play of how all that went down.
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65. By January 8th, which we will describe Sunday, Twitter will be receiving plaudits from “our partners” in Washington, and the sitting U.S. president will no longer be heard on the platform.
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66. Lastly, people on the left, right, and in between want to know what else is in the #TwitterFiles, from suppression/shadow-banning of leftists to lab-leak theorists, or amplification of military propaganda or conservative accounts. We know everyone has questions.
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67. And while we’ve stumbled on tidbits here and there about topics ranging from COVID to foreign policy, the reality is the data sets are enormous and we’re still working through them.
More is coming. Good night, all.
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1. TWITTER FILES, PART 4
The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7
As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban
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The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7
As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban
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On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs:
- create justifications to ban Trump
- seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders
- express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban
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- create justifications to ban Trump
- seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders
- express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban
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For those catching up, please see:
Part 1, where documents show how senior Twitter executives violated their own policies to prevent the spread of accurate information about Hunter Biden’s laptop;
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Part 1, where documents show how senior Twitter executives violated their own policies to prevent the spread of accurate information about Hunter Biden’s laptop;
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Part 2, how senior Twitter execs created secret blacklists to “de-amplify” disfavored Twitter users, not just specific tweets;
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And Part 3, where we show how senior Twitter execs censored tweets by Trump in the run-up to the Nov 2020 election while regularly engaging with representatives of U.S. government law enforcement agencies.
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For years, Twitter had resisted calls to ban Trump.
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter,” it wrote in 2018, “would hide important info... [and] hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.”
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But after the events of Jan 6, the internal and external pressure on Twitter CEO Jack grows.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama , tech journalist Karas Wisher , ADL , high-tech VC Chris Sacca , and many others, publicly call on Twitter to permanently ban Trump.
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Dorsey was on vacation in French Polynesia the week of January 4-8, 2021. He phoned into meetings but also delegated much of the handling of the situation to senior execs @yoyoel , Twitter’s Global Head of Trust and Safety, and @vijaya Head of Legal, Policy, & Trust.
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As context, it's important to understand that Twitter’s staff & senior execs were overwhelmingly progressive.
In 2018, 2020, and 2022, 96%, 98%, & 99% of Twitter staff's political donations went to Democrats.
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In 2017, Roth tweeted that there were “ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.”
In April 2022, Roth told a colleague that his goal “is to drive change in the world,” which is why he decided not to become an academic.
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In April 2022, Roth told a colleague that his goal “is to drive change in the world,” which is why he decided not to become an academic.
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