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It's been at least a few days since we last dumped on far-right Twitter owner Elon Musk for being a lying, terrorism-coddling, neo-Nazi-boosting fascist, so let's do it again just for funsies. The Washington Post has received new internal documents from Twitter documenting the company's struggle to deal with rising calls for violence from Donald Trump supporters in the days before and after the Jan. 6 coup attempt, including a video call in which company lawyers and safety specialists argued over where the line should be, for language that appeared to toe the line between "coded incitements" and implicit threats.
We already know the outcome of that video call from other internal Twitter documents. Management rebuffed moderator requests to crack down harder on such language, even as pro-Trump protesters were streaming into Washington, D.C., to join the Trump-lead "march" meant to intimidate lawmakers into nullifying Trump's election loss on their own say so. Twitter "didn't want to go too far" when policing phrases like "locked and loaded" in the runup to Trump's rally, explained senior management on the call.
