Internal Twitter documents released by journalists Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse on Dec. 10 show how executives of the social media platform deviated from a longstanding company policy to permanently ban former President Donald Trump.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, told a sales executive in a message on Jan. 7, 2021—one day before Trump’s Twitter account was permanently banned—that the company was “changing our public interest approach” for Trump’s account “in this specific case.”
