Twitter Files Part 11 shows how 'PR crisis' following 2016 election allowed company to embrace intel community

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New 'Twitter Files' episode details 'PR crisis' following 2016 election

told Congress in 2018, when he testified under oath that Twitter did not censor or shadowban conservatives.

Independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss were tapped by Elon Musk to report on the "Twitter Files." However, it was Vijaya Gadde, then-Twitter's head legal chief, who asked if Trump's tweets could be"coded incitement to further violence." Moments later, the so-called"scaled enforcement team" suggested that based on how Twitter interprets Trump's tweets, it could violate the violence incitement policies.

The FBI's routine contact with Twitter regarding users that would ultimately face punishment for their tweets has raised major flags about potential First Amendment violations. One email from February 2021 shows the FBI paid Twitter over $3.4 million since October 2019 over the course of their partnership, as Twitter's policies seek reimbursements when it comes to producing information as part of a legal process.

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