Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been recorded during an internal meeting saying that the company’s clampdown on inciting violence will go much further than simply banning Donald Trump.
The president was permanently barred from Twitter on Friday, with Twitter saying: ‘We have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.’
Trump is now blocked from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitch, among others.
On Thursday Project Veritas, which seeks to expose bias in media, published a clip which they said was given to them by a Twitter whistleblower.
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“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now but this is going to be MUCH BIGGER than just one account & it’s going to go on for much longer…”#ExposeTwitter pic.twitter.com/0AFLJDBzrA— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas)January 14, 2021
Twitter did not dispute the veracity of the clip, but said it was essentially the same content as Dorsey publicly tweeted on Wednesday.
He told staff in the clip: ‘You should always feel free to express yourself in whatever format manifestation feels right.
‘We do intend to do the full retro as I said in my note, it is going to take some time.
‘And then the other thing, just to close out a little bit: we are focused on one account right now.
‘But this is going to be much bigger than just one account.
‘And it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week.
‘And the next few weeks and go on beyond the inauguration. We have to expect that, we have to be ready for that.’
‘So, the focus is certainly on this account and how it ties to real world violence. But also we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time.
‘I don’t believe this is going away any time soon.
‘And the moves that we’re making today around QAnon for instance, one such example of a much broader approach we should be looking at and going deeper on.
‘So the team has a lot of work and a lot of focus on this particular issue. But we also need to give them the space and the support to focus on the much bigger picture. Because it is not going away.
‘You know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day,’ Dorsey said to staff in the tape.
‘And our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation and do what we can to make sure that no one is being harmed based off that. And that is our focus.
‘And that is the color we want to provide.’
Hours before Trump was barred from Twitter, accounts belonging to three of the most high-profile QAnon promoters – attorney Sidney Powell, her client and former NSA Mike Flynn, and 8kun founder Ron Watkins – were shut down.
Dorsey’s decision to shut down Trump, the most high-profile account blocked to date by far, caught everyone’s attention.
A Twitter spokesperson, speaking about the leaked clip, told Fox News: ‘The remarks shown in the video were delivered to our more than 5,400 employees and are nearly the same words Jack shared in a recent Tweet Thread offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks.’
On Wednesday, Dorsey defended Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend Trump’s account, saying that it was the ‘right decision.’
He did, however, say that he knew it was a fine line, and he did not want to ‘limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning.’
Hours before Trump was barred from Twitter, accounts belonging to three of the most high-profile QAnon promoters – attorney Sidney Powell, her client and former NSA Mike Flynn, and 8kun founder Ron Watkins – were shut down.
Dorsey’s decision to shut down Trump, the most high-profile account blocked to date by far, caught everyone’s attention.
A Twitter spokesperson, speaking about the leaked clip, told Fox News: ‘The remarks shown in the video were delivered to our more than 5,400 employees and are nearly the same words Jack shared in a recent Tweet Thread offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks.’
On Wednesday, Dorsey defended Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend Trump’s account, saying that it was the ‘right decision.’
He did, however, say that he knew it was a fine line, and he did not want to ‘limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning.’
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