Here we go! * When Trump was banned, there were a few minority of dissenters. One was a Chinese woman who voiced her concern. * But the overwhelming chatter (on Slack) was that people had wanted Trump banned earlier * After Jan 6th, employees banded together to demand Trump be banned * One Twatter employee said It’s “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without breaking the rules" * On Jan 8th, WAPO published a letter signed by 300 Twatter employees to Jack Dorsey demanding he ban Trump. The letter repeated Biden's words about Jan 6th being an insurrection #Twitter Staff Found Trump DID NOT Violate Policies or Incite Violence * Staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had *not* violated Twitter’s policies.“I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement,” wrote one staffer. * “I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” wrote Anika Navaroli, a Twitter policy official. Nor did she see a policy violation WHOA! This same person aligned with the Democrats to later smear Trump!! She claimed that if she didn't intervene people would die! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/anika-navaroli-twitter-employee-identity-alarm-january-6/index.html * Twitter never banned Iran or Nigerian leaders for violent or offensive Tweets * NOT BANNED: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government threatened to arrest Twitter employees in India, and to incarcerate them for up to seven years after they restored hundreds of accounts that had been critical of him. #BINGO! VIJAYA GADDE Doesn't Like the Answer Not to Ban Trump * After Twatter staffers determined Trump didn't violate policy OR incite violence, Vijaya Gadde says should consider Trump's tweets a coded incitement to further violence. * Twitter employees on the “scaled enforcement team” suggest that Trump’s tweet may have violated Twitter’s Glorification of Violence policy—if you interpreted the phrase “American Patriots” to refer to the rioters. Members of this team view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler * YOEL ROTH: “Multiple tweeps have quoted the Banality of Evil suggesting that people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders,” #American Patriots = Rioters * After an all hands meeting w/ Dorsey and Gadde, Yoel Roth amplifies employees concerns about not banning Trump * An hour later, Twitter announces Trump’s permanent suspension “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” #Twitter Employees were Estatic Trump was banned * One employee said Don Jr's account should also be locked * By the next day, employees expressed eagerness to tackle “medical misinformation” as soon as possible * World leaders Macron, Merkle and Obrador expressed concern over Trump being banned