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Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
1.     THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th
5:04 PM · Dec 9, 2022


Matt Taibbi
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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...


Matt Taibbi
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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.



Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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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.


Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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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.

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Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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8. The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days. However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots.


Matt Taibbi
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9. Before J6, Twitter was a unique mix of automated, rules-based enforcement, and more subjective moderation by senior executives. As @BariWeiss
 reported, the firm had a vast array of tools for manipulating visibility, most all of which were thrown at Trump (and others) pre-J6.


Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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10.  As the election approached, senior executives – perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed – increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of “vios” as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway.

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Matt Taibbi
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Matt Taibbi
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13.  One particular slack channel offers an unique window into the evolving thinking of top officials in late 2020 and early 2021.



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Matt Taibbi
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@ShellenbergerMD
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@bariweiss
15.  There was at least some tension between Safety Operations – a larger department whose staffers used a more rules-based process for addressing issues like porn, scams, and threats – and a smaller, more powerful cadre of senior policy execs like Roth and Gadde.



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12.  These initial reports are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public. They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker.

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Matt Taibbi
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@ShellenbergerMD
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17.  During this time, executives were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content. While we’re still at the start of reviewing the #TwitterFiles, we’re finding out more about these interactions every day.



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mystery-ak:
Harrison
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Yoel and the FBI committed treason

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