A leaked recording of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey suggests that the company's policy enforcement actions will go far beyond banning President Trump.
The right-wing guerilla news outlet Project Veritas
released a clip on Thursday given to them by a purported Twitter
"insider whistleblower" who secretly recorded remarks by Dorsey to
staff.
"You should always feel free to express yourself in whatever format manifestation feels right," Dorsey said in the clip.
Dorsey,
who recently addressed the controversy over his company's decision to
permanently suspend the president, told staff in a virtual meeting that
Twitter will do a "full retro" that will "take some time," but drew
focus to the platform's former most high-profile account.
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"We
know we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be
much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much
longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on
beyond the inauguration," Dorsey said. "So, the focus is certainly on
this account and how it ties to real-world violence. But also, we need
to think much longer-term around how these dynamics play out over time. I
don't believe this is going away anytime soon."
Dorsey then
referenced actions taken against QAnon conspiracy theorists as part of a
recent purge of Twitter accounts, telling staff it's part of a "much
broader approach that we should be looking at and going deeper on."
"You
know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every
single day," Dorsey later said. "And our role is to protect the
integrity of that conversation and do what we can to make sure that no
one is being harmed based off that. And that is our focus."
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Project
Veritas founder James O'Keefe teased Thursday that more leaks from
Twitter may come, saying "we've had over a dozen people reach out to us
this week with video evidence inside Twitter."
"Stay
tuned," O'Keefe told viewers. "They may be private companies, but they
have more power than all three branches of government."
A Twitter
spokesperson told Fox News, "The remarks shown in the video were
delivered to our more than 5,400 employees and are nearly the same words
Jack shared in a recent Tweet Thread offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks."
On
Wednesday, Dorsey defended Twitter's decision to permanently suspend
President Trump's account, saying that it was the "right decision."
He
did acknowledge, however, that taking such actions "fragment the public
conversation", "divide us" and "limit the potential for clarification,
redemption, and learning." He also admitted that the power of
his corporation in the "global public conversation" has set
a "dangerous" precedent.
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In
a recent interview on "Hannity," O'Keefe told the host that "in this
time of moral and political crisis, I think courage is contagious, and
we have all these whistleblowers coming to us, insiders helping us
expose."
"We need more of these people," O'Keefe added. "Right
now, I think, is the time to be hopeful if we can create an army of
exposers, because exposure itself, sunlight needs to be the best
disinfectant. Exposure itself is the solution."