{"id":1772941,"date":"2022-12-12T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772941"},"modified":"2022-12-12T19:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:03:05","slug":"the-twitter-files-part-v-chinese-employee-warned-co-workers-against-censoring-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-twitter-files-part-v-chinese-employee-warned-co-workers-against-censoring-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter Files Part V: Chinese Employee Warned Co-Workers Against Censoring Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-twitter-files-part-v-chinese-employee-warned-co-workers-against-censoring-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The fifth installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d focused on the actions inside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> following the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol that ultimately resulted in former President Donald Trump being banned from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Bari Weiss highlighted the two tweets that the president posted that day before getting banned:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3. 7:44 am: \u201cTo all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRF7O4Ijcf\">pic.twitter.com\/bRF7O4Ijcf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1602364863182868480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report noted that the company had resisted calls for years from internal and external sources to ban the president because Trump was an important part of the public conversation. Employees at the company note that they have \u201cfar stricter rules on effectively everyone else on the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As conversation grew inside the company, one employee said in the company\u2019s Slack channel, \u201cMaybe because I am from China, I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report continued by noting that some inside Twitter viewed Trump\u2019s reference to \u201cAmerican Patriots\u201d as a reference to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, many of whom have faced criminal prosecution, while others inside the company did not see Trump\u2019s tweet as a call to incite violence.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, officials at the company decided that the two tweets did not explicitly violate any of the company\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted different world leaders that have explicitly called for violence on their accounts, but did not have their accounts removed:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">21. In October 2020, the former Malaysian Prime Minister said it was \u201ca right\u201d for Muslims to \u201ckill millions of French people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Twitter deleted his tweet for \u201cglorifying violence,\u201d but he remains on the platform. The tweet below was taken from the Wayback Machine: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tgxgCw9I9\">pic.twitter.com\/7tgxgCw9I9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1602370784332156928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">23. In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up, and did not ban the prime minister. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DThmGsJM1r\">pic.twitter.com\/DThmGsJM1r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1602371899723431937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Trump\u2019s two tweets were determined to not be a violation of the company\u2019s policies, Vijaya Gadde \u2014 Twitter\u2019s Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust \u2014 asked if the tweets could be coded in some way.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s team then began to see Trump\u2019s mentioning of \u201cAmerican Patriots\u201d as a reference which led them to view Trump as \u201cthe leader of a terrorist group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weiss protected the identities of many inside Twitter who contributed to what was happening by blocking their names and account photos from inside the company Slack channel.<\/p>\n<p>Soon-to-be Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said that the company needed to understand the ripple effects from its decision and that \u201ccentralized content moderation\u201d had reached \u201ca breaking point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report then noted that numerous global leaders were stunned by the decision to ban Trump and even spoke out against it publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files\u201d focused on the actions inside of Twitter following the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol that ultimately resulted in former President Donald Trump being banned from the platform. 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