by According to the most recent “Twitter Files” installment, former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter a day after former First Lady Michelle Obama and others demanded the company “permanently” dismiss her.
On Saturday, CEO Elon Musk and journalist Michael Shellenberger released a fourth batch of Twitter documents showing internal communications by company executives, including and shortly after, the riot at the Capitol Building, January 6-8, 2021.
Among the filings, Shellenberger said “internal and external pressure” fell on the company, including from the former First Lady, and demanded that Trump be banned from using Twitter.
A split photo of former US President Donald Trump taken in Palm Beach, Florida on November 15, 2022 and Michelle Obama in Los Angeles, California on June 13, 2022.
“Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop allowing this monstrous behavior and go further than they’ve already done by permanently banning this man from their platforms and enforcing policies that will prevent their technology from being used for fuel by country leaders.” Uprising,” Obama wrote in a lengthy statement posted on Twitter on Jan.
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And he added: “And if we have any hope of improving this nation, now is the time for the rapid and serious consequences of yesterday’s disgraceful leadership’s failure.”
In addition to the former First Lady, the Anti-Defamation League has called for Trump’s ban, along with several other prominent individuals and organizations.
On the morning of January 7, then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wrote to employees in an email instructing them to “remain consistent with their policies, including the right of users to return to Twitter after a temporary suspension,” as Shellenberger wrote.
Trump was serving a suspension on the platform at the time.
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The files also showed that Twitter maintains a so-called “Public interest exceptions” policy, in which elected officials are not banned because their comments are in the great public interest, even if they appear to violate other policies.
Former US First Lady Michelle Obama arrives in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 7, 2022.
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While Trump’s temporary suspension was lifted, in Trump’s case this latter policy was deliberately and deliberately ignored, Shellenberger reported. Dorsey was also on vacation during the Trump ban.
“Dorsey was on vacation in French Polynesia the week of January 4-8, 2021,” Shellenberger said. The CEO has transferred most of the responsibility to senior executives, including former Twitter Head of Trust and Security Yoel Roth and former Head of Legal, Policy and Trust Vijaya Gadde, which Shellenberger points out to be “overwhelmingly progressive”.
“In 2018, 2020 and 2022, 96%, 98%, and 99% of political donations from Twitter staff went to Democrats,” Shellenberger said.
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Shellenberger also reported: “In 2017, Roth tweeted that there were ‘REAL NAZI IN THE WHITE HOME’.”
“Twitter employees know the difference between their own policies and Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS), but they also engage in complex interpretations of content to eliminate prohibited tweets,” Shellenberger said.
A day after Dorsey’s email, Trump was permanently suspended for “receiving and commenting on” his posts.
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After Musk bought Twitter and took over as its chief executive, Trump’s access to the platform was restored. But Trump has yet to regain control of his account and previously told Fox News Digital that he plans to stay on social media platform Truth Social.
