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‘Twitter Files’ Part 5 Reveals Trump May Not Have Violated Twitter Rules Despite Ban

Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.Mary ManleyThe ‘Twitter Files’ are a part of a series in which CEO Elon Musk is attempting to deliver on promises of transparency with Twitter users. The first batch of the series came just a month after Musk acquired the social media platform.Former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss released the fifth installment of the ‘Twitter Files’ series on Monday, arguing that Twitter employees had felt “pressured” to ban Trump despite refusing to do so for the course of his presidency.

"For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate," Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press wrote in a Monday thread. "But after January 6, as @mtaibbi and @shellenbergermd have documented, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter, to ban Trump."

Weiss went on to claim that there were some Twitter employees who behaved as “dissenters” and preferred not to ban Trump because they believed “censorship can destroy the public conversation.”