How ‘The Twitter Files’ Undermine The J6 Report

Censorship-hungry Twitter employees vented to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 that their company wasn’t authoritarian enough when it came to curbing former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2021 Capitol riot, a newly released 122-page memo shows. “The Twitter Files,” But, this proves that Big Tech was determined to suppress the Republican President long before his ban on the platform on Jan. 8, 20,21.

If the Twitter staff is not available, “Tweeps,” gave witness testimony to the J6 Committee last year, they likely didn’t anticipate a fact-check of their public statements against their internal communications. Then Elon Musk acquired the company in October of 2022 and released internal documents exposing Twitter’s key censorship decisions and election meddling.

Some of the material revealed in the revelations was dubbed “The Twitter Files” corroborates what these ex-staffers told the J6 Committee about Twitter’s hesitation to ban Trump until Jan. 8. However, many of these documents and communications show that Twitter treated Trump differently from most other world leaders long before the Riot.

Tweeps agree: Big tech is not authoritarian enough

Anika Navaroli, a member of Twitter’s censorship team, told the J6 Committee in anonymous testimony in July of 2022 that Twitter’s decision to delay the permanent suspension of Trump until after the riot was “absolutely indicative and emblematic of Twitter’s hands-off, willfully ignorant approach to the former President’s rhetoric on the service and on the platform.”

Similar to hundreds of Twitter employees who wrote about an open letter demanding the president’s permanent suspension, Navaroli claimed she lobbied for the curbing of Trump long before he was banned on Jan. 8, 2021However, her demands for action were not met.

“For months I had been begging and anticipating and attempting to raise the reality that if nothing — if we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die,” Navaroli spoke in an interview with the Democratdominated committee. “On Jan. 5, I realized no intervention was coming. As hard as I had tried to create one or implement one, there was nothing. We were at the whims and the mercy of a violent crowd that was locked and loaded.”

The committee learned on January 5th that Twitter was expressing serious concern about violence possible the next day.

“I had been begging… and attempting to raise the reality that… if we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die.” pic.twitter.com/wjAxwra6XQ

— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 12, 2022

Navaroli’s frustrations furthered when, after being tasked with evaluating the validity of Trump’s online rhetoric following the Capitol riot, she ultimately dismissed the outgoing president’s tweets as above board under Twitter’s policies.

“I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” Navaroli wrote In a Slack Chat with her coworkers on Jan. “I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no [violations] for the DJT one.”

Navaroli wasn’t alone. Another member of the family has yet to be identified