Elon Musk’s Twitter released another batch of internal discussions on Friday night, which revealed that executives at the social media company had established the “framework” for banning Donald Trump’s account before the events of January 6, and used the Capitol riots as their excuse to finally blacklist the President.
In a lengthy Twitter thread, journalist Matt Taibbi explained that the internal communications at Twitter between January 6 and January 8 2021 suggest that even the employees of the social media company understood the move to censor a sitting U.S. president would have a historical impact.
After banning Trump, Twitter executives appeared to relish their newfound power and even flirted with banning future the official @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts, but ultimately decided the accounts will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary.
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