Docs Expose Secret Inside Story of How Twitter ‘Invented’ Reason Behind Trump’s Ban | Facts Matter
For the last two weeks, Elon Musk has been exposing Twitter one bombshell at a time—and showing the world exactly the type of censorship that Twitter was engaging in, prior to his takeover.
And one of the most shocking troves of documents released thus far has to do with the deplatforming of former President Donald Trump.
Over the past two years, the official line has been that Trump broke Twitter’s policy by inciting a call to violence—the official reason that the world was given as to why he was kicked off the platform.
But these files paint a much different picture. They show that, even within the company, it was clear that Trump did not violate their policies. And so, what they did was essentially invent a reason to ban him anyway….