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Latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal internal chaos as employees pressured executives to ban Trump

Twitter employees accused their colleagues of behaving “like Nazis following orders” after site monitors found that then-President Donald Trump had not violated the social media giant’s policy, just hours before he was banned from the platform in 2021, newly released documents show.

Elon Musk’s latest installment of the “Twitter Files,” unveiled by independent journalist Bari Weiss on Monday, reveals the behind-the-scenes chaos as a group of anti-Trump employees pressured top executives to oust the sitting president. The internal debate was being waged just days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, despite a lack of evidence that Mr.