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4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow,
@Shellenbergermd
will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday,
@BariWeiss
will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.

[kiryandil]

The federal government had the President of the United States removed from Twitter.

Sounds like a coup to me.

[janetjanet998]

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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5. Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech.

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Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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6. As soon as they finished banning Trump, Twitter execs started processing new power. They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses – perhaps even Joe Biden. The “new administration,” says one exec, “will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary.”