Forwarded from The Justice League (Toria Brooke)
3. 7:44 am: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
4. For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.
4. For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.
Forwarded from The Justice League (Toria Brooke)
5. “Our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly,” the company wrote in 2019. Twitter’s aim was to “protect the public’s right to hear from their leaders and to hold them to account.”
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019
6. But after January 6, as
@mtaibbi and
@shellenbergermd have documented, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter, to ban Trump.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019
6. But after January 6, as
@mtaibbi and
@shellenbergermd have documented, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter, to ban Trump.
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9. After January 6, Twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban Trump. “There is a lot of employee advocacy happening,” said one Twitter employee.
10. “We have to do the right thing and ban this account,” said one staffer.
It’s “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules,” said another.
10. “We have to do the right thing and ban this account,” said one staffer.
It’s “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules,” said another.
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