A flood of newly released internal documents reveal Twitter executives, transfixed by an anti-Trump dogma that permeated the highest reaches of the company, pushed for policy changes specifically designed to oust the sitting president from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Adding to previous revelations of Twitter’s liberal bent that led to the censorship of conservative viewpoints and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, Elon Musk began disclosing further details behind the decision to permanently ban then-President Trump in an extended three-part segment of the “Twitter Files.