“Live Tweeting” Third Episode: Deplatforming The President

Live Tweeting: Elon Musk revealed what led to removal of Donald Trump from microblogging site after US Capitol Riot. He twitted from his twitter handle,” The Twitter Files, Part 3 Deplatforming the President”, with the thread of the journalist.

Thread:

The chapter 3 of live tweeting is reported by independent journalist Matt Taibbi. He tweeted,” THREAD: The Twitter Files THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP Part One: October 2020-January 6^th”.

“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,” Taibbi wrote on Friday.

He then shared a screenshot of a Twitter employee asking, “Is this the first sitting head of state to ever be suspended?”

Taibbi reported that executives at Twitter “started processing new power” following their decision to ban Trump, indicating they were “prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses – perhaps even Joe Biden. The ‘new administration,’ says one executive, ‘will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary.’”

FBI enrolment:

Then, reporter shared internal Slack messages from Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, who made light out of heightened discussions with federal agencies following Jan. 6. Roth joked about the lack of “generic enough” calendar descriptions to conceal the “very interesting” meetings he had.

Taibbi posted messages that he said “show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies.”

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, appears to describe how he struggled to disguise the purpose of weekly meetings with FBI and other government officials that helped guide the company’s decisions on policing posts on its platform.

In response, someone whose identity is obscured, suggested, “Very Boring Business Meeting That Is Definitely Not About Trump :)”

Another message shows Yoel Roth, lamenting the personal fallout from Twitter’s apparently on-the-fly decision to suppress The Post’s exclusive, October 2020 scoop about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop on the unfounded assertion it was based on “hacked materials.”

“We blocked the NYP story, then we unblocked it (but said the opposite)…and now we’re in a messy situation where our policy is in shambles, comms [public relations] is angry, reporters think we’re idiots and refactoring an exceedingly complex policy 18 days out from the election,” he wrote.

Prior

On Thursday, Weiss revealed Twitter’s efforts to suppress prominent conservatives, a resurfaced September 2018 clip of Dorsey’s testimony to a congressional committee was asked point-blank whether Twitter “censors” its users.

She pointed to Stanford University’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a longstanding opponent of COVID groupthink during the pandemic who expressed opposition to lockdowns.

“Twitter secretly placed him on a ‘Trends Blacklist,’ which prevented his tweets from trending,” Weiss reported.

Also read: “Live Tweeting” Second Episode: Twitter’s Secret Blacklists

Taibbi, who published the first installment of the “Twitter Files,” addressed what led to Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.

Also read: Twitter New Feature “Live Tweeting” First Episode: Hunter Biden Story

Twitter blocked its users from sharing the New York Post’s reporting of Hunter Biden’s laptop in tweets and in direct messages.

Musk had been vocal about being transparent when it comes to Twitter’s past and present actions when it comes to curating content on the platform, including censored content.