57. The firm’s executives on day 1 of the January 6th crisis at least tried to pay lip service to its dizzying array of rules. By day 2, they began wavering. By day 3, a million rules were reduced to one: what we say, goes

58. Roth groans about Coudrey: “THIS asshole,” but still seems determined to stick at least

59. At 2:39 p.m. PST, a comms official asked Roth to confirm or deny a story that they’d restricted Trump’s ability to tweet. Roth says, “We have not.”

60. Minutes later, Roth executed the historic act of “bouncing” Trump, i.e. putting him in timeout. “I hope you… are appropriately CorpSec’d,” says a colleague.

61. The first company-wide email from Gadde on January 6th announced that 3 Trump tweets had been bounced, but more importantly signaled a determination to use legit “violations” as a guide for any possible permanent suspension:

This theme of Policy perhaps being stressed by queries from Communications executives – who themselves have to answer the public’s questions – occasionally appears. Two days later, you see chatter about pulling Comms out of the loop:

Twitter Files update

In case it’s not clear, it was our own US government meddling in our elections the whole time.

HQ didn't like what Trump said bc he was ordering Martial Law and [They] knew Trump caught them all..

TREASON

63. A few last notes about January 6th. Roth at one point looked and found Trump had a slew of duplicate bot applications:

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601387286658093058?s=20&t=tqmIPyQuv3tZPJV75kUPnQ

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
@shellenbergerMD
this weekend for the play-by-play of how all that went down.

65. By January 8th, which
@BariWeiss
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.

👆👆👆👆👆👆👀👀 WOW!!!

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.

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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FRYDAY: I noticed earlier one of the Dec 09 deltas is missing a Y...

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I originally thought this post earlier today from Jack Dorsey was missing a Y, but at a closer look realized the Y is yellow. Which is an interesting connection to a mention of a different color letter in one of today's delta drops... 👇