Twitter may be perceived as an enemy by conservatives who fault the social media platform for banning former President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but a former Twitter employee testified Tuesday that the company in fact enjoyed being Trump's preferred medium of communicating with his followers.
A voice recording of a former Twitter Employee is played during a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 12, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth FrantzTwitter may be perceived as an enemy by conservatives who fault the social media platform for banning former President Donald Trump after the Jan.
That comment came within the context of a hearing in which Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., detailed how Trump used Twitter to summon an army of potentially violent followers to storm the seat of the American government. In his tweet, Trump falsely asserted that it was “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election.”In response, pro-Trump groups such as Women for America First changed their plans for a pro-Trump rally from after Joe Biden’s planned Jan. 20 inauguration to Jan. 6. Others created a website, WildProtest.com — the name being a reference to Trump’s tweet — with information about the planned riot.
“My concern was that the former president, for seemingly the first time, was speaking directly to extremist organizations and giving them directives,” the former Twitter employee said in his testimony. “We had not seen that sort of direct communication before.” Responses to tweets promoting the rally would often include references to being prepared to commit acts of violence, such as “I’m locked and loaded.”
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