Elon Musk was reportedly surprised and dismayed that Twitter banned then-president Trump from the platform. He called it a “grave mistake” and said it was “morally wrong and flat-out stupid” to ban a sitting president who had broken no laws or even violated Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS).
He’s not wrong. So how did this grave mistake happen? The release of the fourth batch of Twitter Files provides a troubling picture of executives hatching schemes to justify the ban. This installment was released to and by journalist Michael Shellenberger.
As with all of these releases, they are first being released on Twitter per an agreement between the various journalists involved and Musk, so the threads are long and somewhat cumbersome to report in full. Therefore, I am going to provide some highlights below, but be sure to read the entire thread here (archive link).
One of the things that Old Twitter was doing behind the scenes was come up with some kind of justification to ban the sitting president of these United States. And on January 7, 2021, they reportedly landed on–and then-owner Jack Dorsey approved–one such “policy.”
Apparently, only one Twitter employee dared to question the integrity of such a decision.
Among the red flags for the progressive fascists at Old Twitter were the hashtags #StopTheSteal and #Kraken.
From there, things get really messy for Old Twitter as the files reveal that they were essentially just making things up and ditching their own policies in order to justify permanently banning Trump from Twitter.
Shellenberger concludes with a teaser about what the next batch of Twitter Files will contain (as of this writing, Weiss has not yet released the the fifth Twitter Files):
Here are our previous posts on the #TwitterFiles:
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