Matt Taibbi
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1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th
5:04 PM · Dec 9, 2022
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2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th...
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3. We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.
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4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd
will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss
will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.
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5. Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech.