Twitter executives were hesitant to ban Trump after Jan. 6, challenging the right-wing narrative that the company was quick to de-platform conservatives, WaPo reports
Twitter executives and management were hesitant to ban Donald Trump after the January 6 riot, undercutting the narrative held by some Republicans that the social media platform was quick to censor conservative voices.showed that Twitter executives initially did not want to take down posts that the company's safety policy team viewed as"coded incitements to violence" or even suspend Trump after the events of the Capitol riot.
Some argued that"reasonable minds could differ" on what Trump meant by his tweets, according to an internal document prepared by, who testified before the January 6 panel, the Post reported. The document was intended to record the company's decision-making process. Last year, Musk provided internal company documents to a select group of journalists to publish the Twitter Files, which set out to demonstrate how Twitter was bent on silencing conservative views. But the records obtained by the Post reveal how Twitter deliberated on handling Trump's tweets and received pushback before the company took the unprecedented step of kicking a US president off its platform.
According to the document prepared by Navaroli, the tweets raised alarms but members of Twitter's safety policy team agreed that the posts did not violate company rules since there was no explicit"call to violence" or"target of abuse."
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