A top Twitter executive wanted to label former President Trump’s upbeat post telling Americans “Don’t be afraid of Covid” after overcoming the virus in October 2020 as misinformation.
According to documents released Monday as part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files,” James Baker, Twitter’s since-fired deputy general counsel, linked to the post in an email to Yoel Roth, the social-media giant’s head of trust and safety.
Mr. Baker, a former FBI lawyer and a key facilitator of the bureau’s much-criticized investigation into purported Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential race, asked why the then-president’s tweet was not a “violation of our COVID-19 policy” on misinformation.