The revelations of Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, continue to be an event. Musk, through the independent journalist Mark Taibbi, disclosed the stance of the company management during the January 6 congressional raid and the suspension of Trump’s Twitter account. Taibbi shared on Twitter the correspondence about how senior management violated the company’s policies and rules, starting before the events of January 6.
“BANKING THE PRESIDENT…”
In internal memos from January 6-8, 2021, one of the Twitter employees asked, “Is this the first time to ban an incumbent head of state?” Taibbi, who stated that he made his comment, revealed that in the aforementioned correspondence, the suspension of Trump’s personal account, followed by the White House and the Presidential Twitter account, was discussed, and it was stated that its use could be restricted instead.
In the exposed text, it was not overlooked that the Twitter expert stated that the Trump administration will hand over the task to Joe Biden in the near future and that there will be no need to take steps towards these accounts.
IT HAS BEEN TAKING PRESSURE FROM FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS
Noting that Trump’s account suspension was included in the discussions on January 6-8, Taibbi noted that a senior executive wrote that “the context of Trump’s actions” and “what the US leader did during his 4-year presidency necessitate this step in the bigger picture”. He reported that the groundwork for his plan to remove Twitter from Twitter was actually discussed in correspondence a few months ago.
Stating that Twitter’s suspension of accounts was based on rules-based automation and the personal savings of some executives, Taibbi stated that as the 2020 presidential elections approached, the company began to take pressure from federal institutions.
Taibbi also disclosed that by loosening the policies, intervention in high-level accounts began to be discussed and a “Slack Group” was established for this purpose after January 6th.
ADMINISTRATORS REPORT CENTURIES TO FEDERAL AGENCY
Journalist Taibbi also shared the correspondence about the executives talking about which election-related content could be considered a violation in connection with federal institutions during the election process.
Taibbi said that while Twitter was censoring the news revealing the information on the computer of Hunter Biden, son of US President Biden, the executives of the company met weekly with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Directorate of National Intelligence, and received opinions. revealed that he had reported.
MUSK’S PREVIOUS DISCLOSURES
In his first disclosure, Elon Musk revealed how Twitter was censoring information from Hunter Biden’s computer, including content and news, in response to requests from Biden’s campaign team.
Musk, under the title “Twitter Files, Part Two”, announced to the public that teams of Twitter employees under the former administration had created black lists, in his disclosure from the account named “Bari Weiss”, which is stated in his biography as the founding editor of “Free Press”.
It was revealed that with the said lists, the unpopular tweets were prevented from becoming a trend, and the visibility of all accounts included in the list and even trending topics was actively limited. (AA)