Author Michael Shellenberger releases fourth installment of 'Twitter Files', an initiative backed by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to shed light on 'free speech suppression'
The release of the Twitter files is the latest installment in a series showing censorship within the social media giant.
In Twitter Files Part 4, Shellenberger on Saturday continued from Matt Taibbi's latest thread on the banning of former US President Donald Trump's Twitter account, and related conversations leading up to that decision. Shellenberger discussed how former CEO Jack Dorsey was out of the country during a series of decisions that would ultimately lead to the permanent suspension of Trump's Twitter account.He shared screenshots of a conversation on January 7 between Twitter's former safety chief Yoel Roth and an anonymous co-worker where he asked to blacklist the terms "stop the steal" and "kraken" which propped up the conspiracy that Trump won the 2020 election.
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