The third installment of the “Twitter Files” released Friday, showing the company’s internal communications around the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot and what led up to the decision to ban then-President Donald Trump from the platform.
They also showed how Twitter coordinated with the FBI for the censorship of individuals and how executives governed the platform with an iron fist: barring user engagement for tweets they did not like, or presumed to be false.
“It’s even worse than we thought,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, tweeted Friday evening.
The worries by conservatives that they were victims of blacklists, suspensions, and shadowbanning were all true, the files showed — contrary to testimony from the company’s executives.
TWITTER FILES PART 3 REVEALS WHAT LED TO TRUMP’S REMOVAL FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM
Hawley added: “It is hard to count the number of lies Twitter executives told under oath to Congress.”
Rep Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, echoed: “They told us Twitter didn’t shadow ban….
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