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Why Did Twitter Ban Trump?
Want to know why I never look at anything on Twitter? It’s because of the whole big deal being made by the so-called ‘leaking’ of emails within the Twitter management team about banning Donald Trump.
Trump had his Twitter account permanently suspended two days after the January 6th Capitol assault, but the company had been flagging his tweets for months, warning users that he was violating the company’s policies on messaging which was considered ‘inflammatory’ and an incitement to ‘further violence.’
It now turns out, thanks to internal emails supplied by Twitter to a liberal spieler who writes mostly about environmental affairs, that the day before Trump was banned, an organized campaign to delete Trump’s account resulted in messages to Twitter from a number of anti-Trump personalities, public figures and organizations, led by none other than Michelle Obama, whose message to Twitter said, in part, “Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior — and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technologies from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection.”
The leaked Twitter emails also include correspondence between Twitter staff which resulted in deleting content about the alleged Hunter Biden — Joe…