Elon himself provided as good a summary as any of the latest tranche of Twitter-files released.

Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump, a sitting US President, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn’t violate the rules: https://t.co/60PplztV4k

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022

For years Twitter resisted calls to ban President Trump

5. “Our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly,” the company wrote in 2019. Twitter’s aim was to “protect the public’s right to hear from their leaders and to hold them to account.”https://t.co/rtQjkQQxSs

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

As pressure to ban Trump grew, a lone dissenter from China voiced his opposition to the escalation of censorship

7. There were dissenters inside Twitter.

“Maybe because I am from China,” said one employee on January 7, “I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation.” pic.twitter.com/LtonK0gfS3

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Apart from this lone voice of dissent, the general tenor among Twitter employees was a rabid demand for censorship, specifically to ban Donald Trump

10. “We have to do the right thing and ban this account,” said one staffer.

It’s “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules,” said another. pic.twitter.com/9vgvSgqJBB

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Despite the activist pressure from Twitter employees to ban Trump, Trump’s tweets offered no clear violation of the terms of service which could serve as a pretext for a ban

12. But the Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had *not* violated Twitter’s policies.“I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement,” wrote one staffer.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

“Don’t see the incitement angle here”… concedes one employee

14. Another staffer agreed: “Don’t see the incitement angle here.” pic.twitter.com/6mbUU2Tma0

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Another employee notes that the team has assessed Trump’s tweets and found no violations

15. “I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” wrote Anika Navaroli, a Twitter policy official. “I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no vios”—or violations—“for the DJT one.” pic.twitter.com/DnJk2UUuf6

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

To understand Twitter’s decision to ban Trump, important to look at tweets from other world leaders who were not banned from Twitter…

21. In October 2020, the former Malaysian Prime Minister said it was “a right” for Muslims to “kill millions of French people.”

Twitter deleted his tweet for “glorifying violence,” but he remains on the platform. The tweet below was taken from the Wayback Machine: pic.twitter.com/7tgxgCw9I9

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Twitter’s Vijaya Goode evidently the driving force behind Trump’s ban

26. Less than 90 minutes after Twitter employees had determined that Trump’s tweets were not in violation of Twitter policy, Vijaya Gadde—Twitter’s Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust—asked whether it could, in fact, be “coded incitement to further violence.” pic.twitter.com/llJRMfpOPi

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Twitter’s top censors compare Trump to Hitler, mass murderer shooters in order to serve up pretext for “incitement to violence” ban

28. Things escalate from there.

Members of that team came to “view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler and on that basis and on the totality of his Tweets, he should be de-platformed.” pic.twitter.com/QD4DvrUEhO

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Jack Dorsey caves to the demands of Vijaya Goode and degenerate head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth

31. Dorsey requested simpler language to explain Trump’s suspension.

Roth wrote, “god help us [this] makes me think he wants to share it publicly” pic.twitter.com/KTMumR0rDD

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

Twitter employees were ecstatic when news of Trump’s ban emerged. In further proof a mob is never placated, the Twitter activists immediately moved to calls to ban more Covid “misinformation”

35. By the next day, employees expressed eagerness to tackle “medical misinformation” as soon as possible: pic.twitter.com/kJKqZaSekt

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022

This is a developing story. Revolver News will update as appropriate. Read the full Twitter thread HERE