A Twitter employee testified that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that people might die the next day during a rally that former President Donald Trump regularly promoted with angry rhetoric on his social media accounts.
Responses to Trump’s tweets included references to being “locked and loaded” and calls for “civil war,” the employee noted.
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Trump regularly used Facebook and Twitter to encourage his followers to travel to the Capitol to protest the election results. Last year, The Associated Press identified a series of responses to the president’s posts, which included multiple calls to “fight” and references to militias.
In Twitter’s case, the employee told the committee, that was because they enjoyed the attention Trump’s tweets brought the platform.
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