Elon Musk’s adventure of spilling Twitter’s dirty laundry continues today. The third part of the ‘Twitter Documents’ series, which was reported by independent journalist Matt Taibi, was published yesterday.
Taibi had stated that since yesterday’s events cannot be told in one go, the second part will come the next day, that is, today. As a matter of fact, it happened. Let’s take a look at Part 2 of Part 3 of the ‘Twitter Documentation’ together.
But first, let’s remember what happened:
- If you wish, before looking at the documents shared today, let’s remember what Musk and independent journalists have shared since December 3rd. First of all, in the documents he shared, Taibi cited the ban on the publication of corruption documents on the computer of former Twitter executives Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
- In the second part, another independent journalist, Bari Weiss, discussed that in line with the documents provided by Musk, former Twitter administrators created secret ‘black lists’ in order not to empower some political users.
- In documents released yesterday, Matt Taibi described how former top Twitter executives deleted Donald Trump’s Twitter posts during the US election period and had a corrupt affiliation with federal agencies.
The continuation of Trump’s Twitter excommunication story
Today, another independent journalist, Michael Shellenberger, picks up where Taibi left off yesterday. According to those in the shared documents, after the events of January 6, a great pressure began to occur on the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.
Many famous journalists, platforms, and even former First Lady Michelle Obama have urged Dorsey to ban Trump from Twitter. ‘Your hand is covered in blood,’ Dorsey was even told, she. Since Dorsey was on vacation at the time of these calls, he was able to discuss these issues online with his team.
In emails he sent to the company at the time, Jack Dorsey appears to want his teammates and employees to abide by Twitter’s rules. But Yoel Roth, one of Twitter’s former senior executives, disagreed.
Roth had conversations with his team about how they could ban Trump. He even pushed Dorsey to increase his Twitter expression restrictions during the election period.
After suspending Trump’s account, Roth and his team talked among themselves about whether to penalize accounts that shared screenshots of Tweets from Trump’s suspended account. At that point, if the person who shared the screenshot criticizes Trump, he is not punished, if he praises him, he is punished.
After that, Yoel Roth took action on this issue, asking not to have Trump’s account suspended, but to be banned directly from the platform. To put it in the simplest way, they implemented this by changing the Twitter community rules.
We have come to the end of our Twitter Documents adventure this week, we tried to explain it as briefly as possible. There is no information yet from Musk as to whether it will continue next week. What are you thinking? Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments.
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