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Not according to Twitter files. Twitter under Dorsey and later under Agarwal was quite enthusiastic and eager about pushing the government narratives and suppressing dissent. They even deplatformed a sitting president. I get that you probably liked it back then, but let's be real here. Twitter neither was in a position to deny any requests, nor did it have any inclination to do so.



Yes according to the Twitter files. https://x.com/davidzweig/status/1607384015731888135

> They even deplatformed a sitting president

That sounds like literally the opposite of following government narratives?


By "government" at that time I mean the DNC / DeepState that twitter was entirely subservient to before Musk bought it.


The DNC, a private organization, is the government, but the sitting POTUS is not…

Curious!



According to Dorsey, they didn't want to block Trump, they caved in to advertiser requests.

"But [the Trump ban] was right for the business, because if we didn’t act on it, we probably would have lost all our advertisers, which would affect the business and stock price. But it was wrong for the world and the internet, given the fact that we could do it in the first place. No one should be able to do that."

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mik...


Not true according to their own press release: https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension


You know that the "Twitter Files" were carefully curated to to craft a certain narrative, right?




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